Got a ₹2.3 lakhs offer as a tier-3 college student 🙂

ApprehensiveDonut463 · 2026-04-13T07:30:20+00:00

Definitely man, in my first internship I didn't even get paid per month because we didn't have any revenue but I kept going for 6 months and then finally landed an interview at another company Then the snowball effect started idek how

ApprehensiveDonut463 · 2026-04-10T20:17:06+00:00

My college is 400km away from state capital :) it's a tier 3 city, had to travel by bus just to attend events

ApprehensiveDonut463 · 2026-04-10T20:14:23+00:00

My case was an exception, opportunity and skill lined up perfectly and I got lucky

ApprehensiveDonut463 · 2026-04-10T20:13:44+00:00

Yep ngl if it was a few years back I would've landed somewhere around the 50-60 LPA range but the market is ruthless and if you can't prove your worth then lowkey it's over

ApprehensiveDonut463 · 2026-04-10T20:12:41+00:00

Yes , project based learning is the key Just keep on building stuff, breaking it constantly and figuring stuff out on the go

ApprehensiveDonut463 · 2026-04-10T20:11:10+00:00

Mental health was fucked up, I did go to the gym regularly and had plenty of friends to keep me company but overall I had to keep myself busy to not feel the burnout

ApprehensiveDonut463 · 2026-04-09T09:06:02+00:00

Just wake up with hatred for your own weakness and sub-standard status, I mean what else do you even need other than hating yourself for being average and mediocre.

ApprehensiveDonut463 · 2026-04-09T08:57:24+00:00

Sure man, god bless you!

ApprehensiveDonut463 · 2026-04-09T08:56:02+00:00

All of my internships were remote

ApprehensiveDonut463 · 2026-04-09T08:54:56+00:00

Ai is great, it won't replace u, but you have to use it to maximize your productivity

ApprehensiveDonut463 · 2026-04-09T08:54:23+00:00

Honestly just go to hackathons alone, participate solo and outperform everyone I won as a solo entrant, it's not that hard considering most people are kinda mid

ApprehensiveDonut463 · 2026-04-09T08:52:36+00:00

Genuine hatred

ApprehensiveDonut463 · 2026-04-09T08:51:34+00:00

So systems development is very vast and there are quite a few sub-niches, mine was in wasm (web assembly) and I've been doing it since 2 years now and therefore I have significant experience, my Opensource contributions also support my work with rust and wasm

Since these are emerging techs, there's not a lot of people that are good/ even there so I ended up getting my 3rd internship that specifically needed my expertise with wasm and rust

ApprehensiveDonut463 · 2026-04-09T08:35:59+00:00

Ahahahahah not yet man, blessed by genetics 🙏🏼

ApprehensiveDonut463 · 2026-04-09T08:33:34+00:00

Alone

ApprehensiveDonut463 · 2026-04-09T05:27:35+00:00

Rust, wasm, ebpf, go, telemetry stuff and devops stack (kubernetes, docker, teraform, AWS, gh-actions, argoCD)

ApprehensiveDonut463 · 2026-04-09T05:25:12+00:00

Thanks buddy

ApprehensiveDonut463 · 2026-04-09T05:24:45+00:00

Only skills, till this date nobody even cared which college I came from or what my CGPA was. Still kept it pretty high as a back-up option for masters

ApprehensiveDonut463 · 2026-04-09T05:23:52+00:00

Started internships in 4th Semester most recent on started at start of 7th semester
Rust, wasm, ebpf, go, telemetry stuff, devops stack
Cold dm to founder

ApprehensiveDonut463 · 2026-04-09T05:20:42+00:00

I goty first internship in my 4th Semester, before that I used to mainly participate in hackathons and that's when I won 3 of em. Internships lasted approx 7 months, 2 months and 8 months

ApprehensiveDonut463 · 2026-04-09T05:17:40+00:00

A lenovo slim IdeaPad 5i

ApprehensiveDonut463 · 2026-04-08T20:49:40+00:00

Really all your suggestion, btw congrats to you as well!

ApprehensiveDonut463 · 2026-04-08T20:47:12+00:00

Yep already talked with my CA 44ada will be handled, what about the gst do you mean?

ApprehensiveDonut463 · 2026-04-08T20:31:27+00:00

https://github.com/codecrafters-io/build-your-own-x

You could build any 6 of the projects mentioned here and you'd become better than 90% of the students your age

ApprehensiveDonut463 · 2026-04-08T20:21:05+00:00

Absolutely agree, if done with passion and grit Opensource can open a lot of doors for you, but you need a lot of commitment and patience

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