I am an EE Final year undergrad from a Tier 2 College. I have worked with production apps and am still working with a startup (mostly PPOed). I never did DSA/CP and got hooked to dev only. Now having worked for over 20 months I get sad when I see people who did 2 months DSA getting 30LPA and Where I am not rejected from the shortlisting itself (Oncampus). Recently saw a guy with no experience, literally getting a 60LPA job with a 33L base. And now I doubt my life choices, why did my efforts of managing college and work at once end up in such a disgusting manner. My PPO won't be even half of his CTC. And a guy with just 5-6 months DSA cracks a 60LPA job. Life is tough but shouldn't be up to this extent.
How should I tackle this crisis?
Git good and leetcode.
Leetcode is boring tbh. No real engineering game involved. It's just solving math problems. Anyways I ain't sticking to tech for long so would it be worth investing time on it now ?
It's worth doing if you will end up working in a CS or quant role but not necessary. If you are planning to leave tech then probably not.
Focus on improving yourself , wish others well.
Already been improving myself for the past 2 years handling FT Internships with 8+ subjects in college.
I hear you man. I was in the same boat. Found these puzzle shit useless. But it's a prerequisite to actually get paid well, and is you're lucky - on great dev projects. Just push through it, even if you don't like it
Therefore not sticking to it. This shit is overcrowded and is being filled with useless pseudo techies
That’s how life is. Similar case with me. I see people doing DSA for a few month get a good placement while I got a measly 9LPA job . Life really sucks what can we do 🤷🏻♂️
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