A month ago, a wellknown company visited one of my friend's universities for an oncampus placement drive. They set the eligibility criteria very high to filter out students. However, they conducted...

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A month ago, a well-known company visited one of my friend's universities for an on-campus placement drive. They set the eligibility criteria very high to filter out students. However, they conducted all 3-4 rounds online, and as tech students, we all know how easy it is to find ways to cheat in such situations. Consequently, some undeserving students got placed. Believe me, they are students who don't even know basic fundamentals and programming syntax properly.

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Recently, I was talking with one of my friend who shared this interesting thing with me. He has seen few of his juniors(from CS background ) struggling to clear campus placement tests. Majority of them fail during the coding round and a few in aptitude. Cheating is quite common during campus placements is what he shared. He has also seen non CS/ECE/IT background folks pulling some tricks during this time and are somehow able to clear the test. No idea how they do it without getting caught. But the biggest question I had was, how are CS folks not aware of such thing? and what are those tricks/methods/art they let's you do it so smoothly???

How to clear placement test

Product Manager

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A Healthcare company giving 14 lpa asks to check if string is palindrome or not. And selecting candidates. SMH.

I gave an interview for 7 lpa in a core engineering company, the interviewer asked easy medium leetcode

On campus placement sucks (most of the time)

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There is this one company which came to our campus offering 10.5L CTC and literally selected 251 students at a time when even our college (tier 1) is struggling to place even 50% students and maximum hiring per company is around 10. 

When you read this company's reviews online, the reviews are like they don't pay stipend for months and ask you to sell courses irrespective of if you are a developer. In fact, they ask for money from interns for 'charity' work. 

And the best part is, everyone who gave the test got selected, without any interviews. 

I think that college knows the reality but they still allow this so that the placements stats improve (adding 250+ students at a CTC of 10L really improves the placed percentage and the average package)

Fraud companies boosting placement stats

Just got to know recently that a tier 1 mba college didn’t conduct interviews as part of their admission process during covid. Just CAT scores sufficed. 

In addition to this, post admission, these batches didn’t have proctored exams, they could collaborate and solve the exams together and then submit their answers online. 

Please do reply if this was very common during Covid across other colleges and any other such crazy lapses across colleges.

Dark secrets about premier colleges

In another college, there is no resume vetting and people can and do add a lot of BS "achievements". 
 This is also the college with the largest intake and almost every second person has something like a director's merit list or an honors' list or they are a 'torchbearer'.

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My question, as a college student, which is a better thing to do?
1. Keep learning new tech stack and build different projects.
Or
2. Try to contribute to some organization through open source  and learn through contribution itself (assuming i have some basic knowledge) + increase my network of connections (if possible). 

My primary goal right now is getting decent on campus placement as of now but i have plans to try oss contribution in future even if i am unable to do rn. My 2nd year will end in a few days btw.

Note that i can't do both simultaneously as my college is very hectic (tier 3) but it has some okayish placement.

Learn something new or Open source?

How to grab an off campus placement?
Where to look for the right companies?
How to apply?

Off-campus placement?

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many of my male batchmates with similar coding skills got internship opportunity at top companies like Google, Sprinkler, GS, etc. And i wasn't able to crack even the coding round. later I got to know about everyone was involved in cheating during online coding test forming groups and giving it together. what should I do now, should i consider taking any small internship at some random startup for the sake of filling the experience section of my resume? I will be having placement season after 6 months around september. someone guide me what should i focus more these many days. I am from tier 1 college and around 1500 rated on codeforces and done some good projects in mobile developement.

internship/ placement dilemma 😔

NMIMS Hyderabad asks unplaced students to “opt out” of placements. The things these B Schools will do for 100% placement!

Wow, what’s even more surprising is the reply: seems like students are actually agreeing to it.  
  
 Wonder what kind of pressure tactics they’ve used here.

Operations Manager

Corporate Strategist

I've heard lots of conflicting good and bad viewpoints on ISB on Grapevine and otherwise. I want to explore these things more and build a balanced perspective.

Good things I've heard:-
1. Average comp is decently high as most of the batch has a decent amount of experience.
2. Professors, their way of teaching and the actual course content is one of the best in India.
3. The network is really strong, easily accessible via many channels and helps alumni land jobs frequently.

Bad things I've heard:-
1. Placement comp numbers are heavily inflated.
2. Resume shortlisting in placements is hard because everyone exaggerates a lot and there's no resume vetting.
3. Many people go unplaced.

How much of this (good or bad) is true? Any other good or bad points?

How good/bad is ISB?

Software Developer

I am an engineering student from tier 1 clg, with very low cgpa. My chances of getting those high paying jobs is very low as I don't code and the only options left for me is analyst and pm. 
Please suggest me how should I prepare for off campus placements/ internship as I have no idea that how are they different from on campus placements

Off campus placements

https://x.com/iAyush147/status/1732066156415168884

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Business Development Manager

I'm a full-stack developer with experience in creating various projects, including some for clients. I don't want to go through the hassle of multiple rounds of interviews and end up with a low salary of 30k through college placements. I've been active on Twitter and reached out to people directly, but finding opportunities in the current market conditions is challenging. Any tips would be greatly appreciated! It's tough out there.

Finding Off Campus opportunities for developer

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

I got scammed by one of the leading corporate giants of Bangalore! I’m from IIM Bangalore, I cracked an offer from Agnity.. placement round me itni life changing baatein ki thi board of management ne ki mujhe laga ab toh college se nikalke seedha life set hai! Ghar gadi sabke sapne dekh liye they, it’s been three months now and idhar data entry ke alawa kuch nahi kara rahe merese.. a few of my friends who got selected for other companies are facing the same! I don’t understand jab hume as subordinates hi use karna hai toh campus placements rakhne ka point hi kya hai?

Campus placement rounds are the biggest scams!

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Like in engineering colleges companies set cgpa cutoff, do companies in top MBA college also set any bar for previous academics apart from current CGPA?

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Why do companies do on-campus placement if they can get much better students off-campus?

Placement

Cheating happening in a lot of online assessments. I'm a 2024 graduate and I've worked very hard. I've a consistent streak of 390+ days on leetcode. I'm proficient at CS fundamentals. I have knowledge of web, restAPI and ML. Recently a company visited (startup). It was offered 20L CTC for associate software engineer role. This company conducted OA in 4 batches and all batches had same qn. I'm tye only guy who got shortlisted from batch 1 and rest of the batch guys cheated and shortlisted. In the interview they rejected me for not knowing system design. I then messaged the founder of the company about cheating in exam and how crappy their system was. He didn't care. He replied saying that he already knows. Idk where the hell our world is going with such founders. For him it's about his company. For me it's about my job and hardwork. Is there anything I could do about this? And the guy who got selected cheated in OA and he was in the 3rd batch.

Online assessments, Fresher and Depression

Worried about all the recession and offer letters revoking thing ., And delayed joinings . Should I be safe if I get selected in campus placements as offcampus placements is very hard for freshers. 😐

Do campus placements have any value ?

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what is the scene of placements of 24 batch in your college, which companies are visiting?

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