Summary of the report: 

1,979 students actively participated in the campus drive.
1,475 students were placed in various companies.
78 international offers were accepted by students.
22 students accepted jobs with a package of over ₹1 crore per year.
558 students accepted offers with a package of over ₹20 lakhs per year.
230 students accepted offers with a package of ₹16.75-₹20 lakhs per year.
10 students accepted offers with a package of ₹4-6 lakhs per year.

I think they did good, considering the job market rn.

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does anyone knows the JD by Zomato for Algo Engineer role was real or fake, FYI 60 LPA base is mentioned

any tea on zomato Algo Engineer 60lpa to freshers

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I'll go first. I got a call for an APM role from one of the companies which did sound pretty sketchy and the recruiter was started bullying me into answering questions, when I asked to know more about the role. The recruiter was extremely unprofessional, and obviously the conversation was nowhere great. They however, did go ahead and sent me the JD and other links, etc to fill in and apply for the job. Mind you, I hadn't applied for the job. 🥲
It just was a pretty sour conversation which had left me in an uncertain situation. Any similar experiences?

Weird recruiter experiences

Asked for my expected CTC. I answered and they weren't happy with it. Said they could only give at 40% increment of current CTC and then asked for my current CTC. After hearing my current CTC they said I shouldn't be earning this much and that I was obviously making it up. Then asked to send over my salary payslip which I refused. Basically the HR started being extremely rude at this point stating that I was being unprofessional. I asked their salary budget for the role which they refused to answer. Then I asked if they were willing to hire me for a lower CTC which she instantly agreed and said she knew I was reasonable and I shouldn't have lied about my CTC. I then said good luck finding a candidate for that amount and hung up.

Money is everything?

Isro pays 60k-95k to fresher engineers... Still IITians are not joining.

Slogging for Western Mnc is the only desire of IITians?

Comments and solutions??

https://www.businesstoday.in/latest/story/iitians-not-joining-isro-60-students-walked-out-of-recruitment-drive-after-seeing-pay-structure-s-somanath-401614-2023-10-11

IITians not ready to work at ISRO at 5digit monthly salary.

Everything is so expensive right now. Is it wrong to think about financial stability.

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Disclaimer: I have nothing against high earners in this group who are doing exceptionally well and earning big bucks at young age. You have my admiration. 

Target audience of this post: Everyone else who is doing okay in their job, earning an average salary for their age. 

Why have I posted it?: To not feel I am the only one who is a normal regular person doing just average in his life in this hyper competitive rat race. 

My thoughts: I clearly remember the moment, it was April 2007, I had barely completed the board exams of class 10th and joined class 11th. It was my first week into class 11th when a fine looking gentleman walked into our class to make us think of our future career path. He was from a coaching institute for IIT JEE and AIEEE. He told us about all the high salary packages at these premier institutes. I excitedly told my parents about it. 

Like any middle class parents, they dreamt of their son cracking the exam and securing good placements from IITs/NITs. They enrolled me in coaching. I worked hard for those 2 years, 11th and 12th. But what was harder was the constant stress and pressure I was put in, both intentionally and unintentionally. These ideas that 'I must crack JEE to have a good future', 'if you don't get through JEE then you are a waste' etc, were hammered into my mind day in and day out. 

I didn't crack JEE but got into a well reputed private engineering college of India.. Fast forward 4 years, did my MBA from  tier 2 college only to join a service company at salary that would be considered too low for most of the folks here who compare salary like a plague. Recently joined a product company with good jump. Realised all that pressure I was put under in high school wasn't necessary. I am doing ok in life. 

 I think it's okay to be earning an average salary, everyone of us is on his own journey of growth and comparing ourselves on basis of packages seems myopic

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The stupidity and arrogance of some leaders in some companies to use colleges as filter criteria for what is clearly irrelevant for the role. 

Mostly these idiots end up fucking up company after company creating these neo-casteist groups sucking off and living off each other.

This identity based hiring is the start of corporate politics. I still don’t understand how difficult it is for fucking idiots to understand that while hiring for most roles you have to encourage diverse backgrounds at the start of the process to help you hire the right candidate for the long term, specially in a startup. 

PS I’m not against preferring candidates from certain colleges if it’s relevant. What i do hate is this herd behaviour of trying to hire only from your alumni the moment you are given leadership roles.

It must be such shitty experience to work under idiots like these if you are not from their alumni colleges because their biases play into all evaluations they do about their teams.

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This is pretty common, has been like that for ages. It’s their company and their rules. You also have the freedom to NOT apply. Maybe they have had better experiences with candidates from top tier universities. Remember getting into most tier 1 colleges is itself difficult and only top talent make it. Also get better academic infrastructure, exposure to alumni networks, etc. So there are high chances they will do well. 
  
 Doesn’t mean that candidates from non-tier1 universities can’t excel. Some can be equally good or even better. Maybe these guys don’t want to take a chance with this role.

So, I finally landed an offer with a product company as an SDE after months of struggle as a fresher. 

I hail from a circuital branch of the old IITs. Campus placements were difficult this year, so while I did interview at some good product companies (Microsoft, Amex, etc.), luck didn't favour me and I had tsettle up with a trading role with a low pay. (Other story why I decided to apply here in the first place)

Most of the news articles floating around fucked up placements at IITs are in fact true and I decided to try my hands at off-campus placements only to realise how difficult it is to get even your profile noticed (yes, even with a tier-1 college). 

So this is what I did which I believe can help freshers land a job in this difficult market:

1) Simply applying on LinkedIn esp. via easy apply won't work. There's literally thousands of applicants within a day for a job posting. So try to stand out among the crowd. 

2) Draft an excellent resume. Add things that you believe you can explain to the interviewer (doesn't matter if you've worked a lot on it, the interview is just an hour of you trying to make the interviewer believe the guy knows his stuff).

3) Know your strengths- are you good at DSA or are you good at dev. Startups would demand dev skills majorly, product companies would require DSA knowledge.

4) Start reaching out to people - very senior level people, HRs, Hiring Managers, people directly in touch with Hiring Managers, etc. Dm them on LinkedIn, cold email, and keep following up. In the case of early stage startups, directly reach out to the CTO/CEO. Sometimes, the jobs just don't get posted publicly. 

5) Don't lose hope. I've had days when I used to get a headache thinking of the future and days when I had multiple interviews on the same day. The market is just tough, you're good enough and things might take time, but you'll definitely make it through. 

I got interviews at a couple of HFTs, and a few good product companies and got an offer.

Finally landed an offer

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-Where are we headed, seeing this situation tier 1 students being unplaced I can't imagine the job scenario for tier 2/3 folks.
-What if the market does recover from such a long recession would it be able to accommodate so many fresher students as well as experienced folks?

Data obtained through a Right to Information (RTI) application filed by Dheeraj Singh, an alumnus of IIT Kanpur, suggests a potentially bleak outlook for job

IIT Madras faces placement crisis: 45% graduates are unplaced

When we hear a person is from X IIT or NIT,we think they are smart. Irrespective of how he performed after he came into IT field or any field, he will still be treated on the top. His tag is for his life time. Jo diktha hain vo biktha hain as what people say, If you see he's from IIT or NIT, you will hire him. I was thinking this is not the case if you work hard you can beat them, intelligence is what matters etc etc all this is bull shit. Get a good IIT/NIT tag and you will be life time settled. Every jump you make people will see ur degree college subconsciously value you if you are from tier 1. 

Considering all this , since this is case with colleges, i feel if you are from google, Microsoft or such big tech other companies will blindly have faith in you. I mean again sane logic. 

My question - To have stable IT job, should i try to first get into big tech, and then even if i get laid off i feel i will be valued for my ex Company and then i can grab new offer. 

Should i do it ?!!! Btw im 25M fed up with this competition and i need some stability in life.
Forgive me for English, its 12:28AM and these thoughts are disturbing me.

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Hi Folks, I am seeking advice as a father of a class 12 student, can you all recommend few engineering colleges besides the IIT, Bits, DTU, VIT which have good placement, infrastructure and faculty. 
Could engineers who have graduated in 2017/2018 or HR folks comment with their experience in the job market

Thanks

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I have been looking at career trajectory of several people from IITs and non-IITs down the line after 14-15yrs. What I found is that most managers, PMs, director are from non-IIT backgrounds? (Or possibly IIT backgrounds but non-CS background) 
What do these people(IIT-CS) do later? I saw few opening their own startups. But I couldn't find rest. Where did they go? If you know anyone in your network, please put their designation.

Where do IITians go after 15yrs?

Seeing so many founders who doesn’t want to hire from IIT is just increasing and I fully support this.

IITs are not the super smart people that they used to be. Now they are mostly test takers and that’s it with no innovation or anything.

Using pedigree to get into jobs and raising funds are gone. IIT is not a sign for anything and the badge doesn’t matter anymore.

Good luck to my friends who actually deserve it from IIT or not. I know there are actually great people who are in IIT but just don’t make IIT your entire personality.

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Hello everybody , 
I'm a general category student with all India rank of 23k in jee mains out of 14lakh 
And 16k in jee advanced .
The story of my life is I want to be a software engineer at this rank I'm not getting into my state nit whereas all my beloved friends at ranks of 50k are getting their (obc reserv.), 
I worked hard but feels like all my harwork drained in front of reservation .
Also to mention my friends pity me haha 
Also a friend of mine sc category person 
Got into IIT Bombay Not any branch ppl,electrical branch 5 year at 25k rank in jee advanced sweet ain't it 
Check out my rank in jee adv and all I can get highest is iit kgp mining 

Out of all of this I secured admission in a iiit but it's fees is so much that what do I do , 
Sadly I'm from lower middle class family , the fees is literally 17 lakhs , also I'm a single parent child , living in a small town .

THIS IS WHAT I CALL PAIN OF RESERVATION 
Literally everyday of counselling,  ive wished that I should not have worked so hard because if I would not have such score then it would be easy to let go , and go to some 3rd class college with less fees

Sometimes it feels ive lost hope , but still just being 18yr old I won't change my Hardworking nature I managed to learn c and c++ and now am doing some basic dsa .

But I'm really pained by this system 
         PERIOD.

The pain of RESERVATION

When I was in 12th and gave my exams for JEE Mains I got -

Physics : 1
Chemistry : 2
Maths : -3

Basically:0 but it was intentional. I got 99% on my 12th and 10th board. Qualified for NERIST Entrance Exam. Got everything but wanted to prove a point, “One piece of paper won’t decide my future.”

Guess I was wrong. Now no investors wants to invest in my ideas because they look for pedigree.

My friends got into IIT Bombay, Delhi and Kharagpur. But unfortunately for them they couldn’t get a job????

My friend who got into IITK got the highest marks in our state batch of 2018. Now his doing coaching. My IITB friend didn’t get an interview nor placement. Lastly my IITD friend is back at studying for MTech.

Don’t understand what is happening. I can build but investors don’t invest. They can work but got no job.￼

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