Only IITs

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)

@Veerappan would disagree with you on this

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

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.

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.

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.