by FuzzyMuffinStealth
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Is your Degree worth it?
36% of IIT Bombay graduates fail to get placement.
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36% of IIT Bombay graduates fail to get placement.
Controversial opinion, but if you're relying on campus placements, your degree is worthless. This system is just so absolutely pathetic and useless. People should be encouraged to go out in the real world and learn to find jobs rather than expect one to land in their laps. I know it's not their fault, these institutions just never train students to work in the real world or get jobs, but still...
Totally agreed
Easy to say… the job market is garbage for freshers right now
Hell yes worth it, agree on not if you have degree from IIT you will get job, I have friends who have 3-4 years of gap and are still able to get jobs (of course you need to be good at something).
It's the best safety net one can have in life
I'm a dropout from a tier 3 college and I cracked almost every company I applied in the last 6 years. Colleges today are nothing more than glorified expensive tuition centres teaching decade old syllabus.
This just means you had a shitty college and had to compensate for it with your own time. That's not the case with IITs and the likes.
I’m an IIT grad working in TCS as a UX designer since 4.5 years.
Let me tell you something.
Degree is just going to give you an initial push,
Later on, it’s all about hard work.
In this day and age, education is democratised- thanks to YouTube. All you need is to work your ass off.
Of course, it gives you good networking opportunities, you’ll be among the ‘smartest’ minds etc- all these are worthless if you don’t work your ass off even after graduation.
I relied completely on my degree hoping that it’ll save my ass etc in the future while I’m making a switch. Living in this cocoon thanks to WFH , not interacting with peers made me to live under this falsehood that degree will help me out etc.
here’s my current scenario- I have no skills as I didn’t upskill. That degree had made me lazy, arrogant and ignorant. I had superiority complex and this stopped me from asking for help. Now, I don’t have a project in hand and I’m bench- all thanks to not upskilling.
Your degree is as good as a toilet paper if you don’t have skills.
I did work hard in IIT. I took a few bad decisions regarding my projects etc but in the end, I was appreciated in my work. But for how long can I live in the nostalgia? Success has an expiry date. You achieve something, celebrate today and tomorrow, get back to work as if nothing happened.
Degrees are worth it if and only if you make the best out of it. No degree can save your ass after a year of graduation. Later on, it’s just skills, skills and skills. Nothing else.
I wish I realised this earlier. Now I am 30 years old and I have to learn the skills what a 20 years old guy is learning. Amazing, right?!
It comes months after IIM Lucknow and BITS Pilani seek alumini help for placements.
IIT Graduates are landing salary packages below Rs. 10 lakh this year.
That happens every year. You just don’t hear about it.
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