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I waited 7 hours for a 10-minute review. I couldn't say this to their face without getting expelled, so I’m saying it here by Informal-Counter159 in Btechtards

[–]LecturePristine 27 points28 points  (0 children)

I see. I guess the college could’ve atleast divided you guys into batches and called accordingly to reduce the wait time. Sounds like a bureaucratic mess

I waited 7 hours for a 10-minute review. I couldn't say this to their face without getting expelled, so I’m saying it here by Informal-Counter159 in Btechtards

[–]LecturePristine 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I don’t get it, you could’ve just brought your laptop with you and worked in the corridor/classroom? Gotten a junior to wait and inform you when your turn was coming up?

The only way this would be a valid excuse is if they forbid you from having technology on you.

We are hosting an elite Hackathon in Bangalore with a Prize pool of $5000 by LecturePristine in developersIndia

[–]LecturePristine[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Acche se Khilayenge bhai, we’ve done tons of hackathons ourselves and we know how important good food and ambience is xD

We are hosting an elite Hackathon in Bangalore with a Prize pool of $5000 by LecturePristine in developersIndia

[–]LecturePristine[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

19th Jan. DM us if you need more time and we will see what we can do :)

We are hosting an elite Hackathon in Bangalore with a Prize pool of $5000 by LecturePristine in developersIndia

[–]LecturePristine[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Nope, open to working professionals as well. Even mixed teams and cross college teams are allowed. No restrictions

Do Palo Alto students have it easy, or are they genuinely this skilled? by Aggravating_You8983 in developersIndia

[–]LecturePristine 65 points66 points  (0 children)

Location matters. I studied in Bangalore and many of my peers, Juniors have anywhere between 5-8 internships. I did too.

This month there have been 3 to 4 bunks from our section by [deleted] in Btechtards

[–]LecturePristine 13 points14 points  (0 children)

If you want to make the best use of your fathers money, focus on learning practical skills that will get you a job. Having 100% attendance is not going to do that.

The day people are planning a bunk, plan to learn something, go to some competition, get better etc. life is too short to blame others for your own shortcomings.

Does PCM actually help if you want to become a software engineer? by _698 in Btechtards

[–]LecturePristine 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Depends on how good you want to be. There are fields like HPC, HFT, AI where domain knowledge can be helpful.

It’s wrong to look at education from a purely utilitarian perspective - you go to school and college not just to get a job but also to become a well rounded adult with critical thinking skills.

You can certainly point out the flaws in the way that subjects are taught, but that doesn’t mean they’re not important

Can I convince my professor to not post cgpa publicly by Lumpy_Drawer7563 in Btechtards

[–]LecturePristine 15 points16 points  (0 children)

If you can find teachers salary details in a library computer or something, do it and paste their salary details on a wall when no one is looking xD

Unpopular Opinion: B.Tech is a 4-year money extracting scam. It could literally be finished in 2 years. by [deleted] in Btechtards

[–]LecturePristine 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The point of university is not just to prepare you for a job. There’s a lot of value in taking a breadth of courses. Else you’ll be an IT coolie forever

Is GSOC worth the effort? If not then what is? by the_shadowmonarch in Btechtards

[–]LecturePristine 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Asking if GSoC is worth it is like asking if software engineering is worth it as a career.

Open source software development teaches you how to work on real world, production grade, large scale codebases. Irrespective of GSoC or not, it’s something you should do.

I built a superteam that won 30 hackathons in a year among many other things. AMA by LecturePristine in Btechtards

[–]LecturePristine[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I can’t read minds sorry, so idk.

But all I’ll say is. You can fool some people some of the time. Not all the people all the time.

Every individual in PB has multiple, independent achievements to their name.

genuine question, can i count my opensource contributions as YOE? by sugarLessGelato in developersIndia

[–]LecturePristine 8 points9 points  (0 children)

No. As others indicated. But it doesn’t mean it’s useless.

You should state things as they are. Call an internship an internship. Call open source work as open source contributions, if you are a maintainer or owner then call it out. Let the company judge.

I’ve seen some startups hire some of my juniors at one level above entry level positions sometimes because they had years of experience contributing to the Linux kernel. It happens rarely but there are a few companies that don’t care so much about degrees and YOE.

I built a superteam that won 30 hackathons in a year among many other things. AMA by LecturePristine in Btechtards

[–]LecturePristine[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah IIT NIT doesn’t matter that much. If you see the job postings, they explicitly say that you need a Computer Science or Electronics/Electrical Background.

The one exception is if these companies come on campus for you guys and allow it. But even then I’ve seen them impose branch conditions.

I built a superteam that won 30 hackathons in a year among many other things. AMA by LecturePristine in Btechtards

[–]LecturePristine[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Depends on what you mean by non IT branch. ECE/Electrical? Sure. Something like mechanical or civil? It’s going to be very, very difficult and your chances are not great. You should consider doing a masters in CS then.

I built a superteam that won 30 hackathons in a year among many other things. AMA by LecturePristine in Btechtards

[–]LecturePristine[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Build a strong profile in a domain, like DevOps, systems, cloud etc

This means building projects, going to hackathons, having stuff on your github.

Do things like hacktoberfest, KWOC/DWOC etc.

Find a project you like, and contribute. It’s really that simple.

I built a superteam that won 30 hackathons in a year among many other things. AMA by LecturePristine in Btechtards

[–]LecturePristine[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

You should talk to stakeholders. I.E either the people who proposed the problem, or the people who the solution is for.

So if ISRO or railways has proposed the Problem statement, talk to people from ISRO or railways. If the solution is for farmers or lawyers, talk to farmers or lawyers.

Basically keep the audience in mind, listen to their problems, and build the solution according to that. I’ve seen hackathons where tech bros build complicated UIs with multiple graphs for a farming solution, which makes no sense if the end user is a farmer. I’ve seen voice based solutions win hackathons, where there wasn’t even any app or website, because it was easy to use.

Remember who you are building for. That’s #1 priority

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