Only IITs
Corporate has a different type of reservation.
Damaru
Stealth
2 months ago
Whole bangalore is an IIT/BITS frat party they entertain "others" if and only if others are 10x more talented. If you are from this pedigree group every dumass gets such benefits in funding and recruitments.
This proves that no one cares about talent in respective field, hr and founders are happy taking these recruitment decisions to avoid growth of talent and merit.
BengaluruLandLord
Stealth
2 months ago
Product managers from bits pilani = trashcans in India smh. Especially those graduating from APM programs in Indian startups like Flipkart etc.
(Applies only PM, engineers are pretty good from bits, I guess those kids who are incompetent in cracking engg roles become these useless APMs)
Bruh does pedree still count after >5 YOE?? Doesn't the past work become more relevant?
Damaru
Stealth
2 months ago
Most people lack skill set to judge expertise and after 5 years in highly sought after roles there is marginal differences between top 20% of the candidates and in business roles those differences are negligible because you can't easily measure who will execute better, so recruitment gets lazy and use these gate keeping criterias
BengaluruLandLord
Stealth
2 months ago
It does become relevant. But ultimately creds are creds
So past experience counts by the brand of startup or company you have worked with.
For eg- I know in my previous company we used to hire only QS global top 1k colleges graduates for 6+ yoe.
However if it's not within top 1k qs, the global policy had a list of companies, startups from which they would hire irrespective of college.
Flipkart, PayTM, phonepe etc were all such companies that mattered.
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Umadbro
Stealth
2 months ago
Not based on birth is it? Based on factors you could have controlled, just that you made a different decision at the time.
I don’t agree with an IIT only criteria, and have seen many getting these roles based on previous work (and not having IIT). If you think your work is good enough, just apply. You might get an interview and eventually a role. These criteria are not as rigid as you think. One other aspect here is once you get in, would you be confident you belong, or be insecure?
LooseGoose
Stealth
2 months ago
It kinda is based on birth, not everyone has money to afford tuitions or access to the right mentors to prep for such institutes and their entrances.
Umadbro
Stealth
2 months ago
Do you have any distinction between opportunity and privilege? If money was a key determining factor of getting through an exam, it would have been a valid point. I am pretty sure if you aggregate enough data, money has very low correlation to clearing IIT. Poorer kids cracked it, and richer kids with more resources could not. As they say, your mental model is contradicted by reality.
Your point also (unintentionally i assume) eliminates a huge section of people in India who didn’t have the means when they had kids, but took responsibility for, grabbed whatever opportunities that came their way, and ensured their kids get more opportunities. That their kids did well is not privilege but opportunity taken.
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Doobie
Stealth
2 months ago
That’s some crazy fixed component 😭
IamBiztech
Student
2 months ago
I have graduated from tier 3 college last month and parallelly preparing for entry level product roles and also for masters from top 10 mem/top 5 mim programs , hope so will get into it so when I come back after few years, no one will look down upon me
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