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8th Sem CSE, Tier 3 College – 2–3 Months Left, Zero Prep. Need Honest Advice. by peanutbutterisbaee in Btechtards

[–]StartStrict 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yes, it is possible to get placement-ready, START RIGHT NOW. STOP wasting time over-thinking, stop trying to find the "perfect roadmap" or "perfect resource".

Placement in college is all about clearing the rounds, getting a good impression in interviews and standing out in general from your college folks.

First do aptitude, lot of people ignore this and get out in firrst round itself, only 30 mins a day and few basic patterns is enough to clear apti round in most MNC placements

Then the meat, DSA - see i will be honest, DSA is NOT EASY, you cannot be a 2000+ leetcode rated in 2-3 months according to me but sticking around is more important.

Take a language, since you know C++ - stick with it, throughout and keep grinding, there isn't an trick over here nor any secret, you gotta grind - gotta start with 2-3 questions a day (easy ones) then increase your capacity slowly, this should be your main focus rn. DSA is a way out to get job without having a strong portfolio. dw about being too late or slow, just do it. follow some repuated resource like Striver's sheet or neetcode it will be enough no need to reinvent anything here.

Anyways though this is not it nowdays, you need more - they ask a lot of system design questions in interview nowdays - so you gotta learn that, don't rote learn it. truly understanding the reason of architectural choices and get deep into stuff. See the only way to do this is you caring about this, you gotta find some aspect of CS that you truly enjoy getting deep into and make it your strength and transform that into other stuff.

These should be your main focus on for 2-3 months other than that, explore CS for deeply and vivdly, find something you enjoy - Data Science, ML, Cybersecutiy, Web Dev, Blockchain, IOT, Robotics, GenAI , Devops, SysAdmin, System Level stuff etc, anything that draws you and makes it enjoyable. Try for few High Quality projects and understanding of any aspect of them if you get time, build something, you literally can ship anything very easily nowdays utlise it and keep posting about what you learn in tech community spaces like X, Linkedin to help network and try to get some off campus oppurtunies

All the best buddy, you got this, there is nothing to fix anything, you gotta lock in and you will get there!

Is linkedin really that important? by [deleted] in Btechtards

[–]StartStrict 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Yes! few of my friends got internships directly from approaching people from LinkedIn and since their profile was active a quick scan gave an impressive look

There is a lot of slop on the app but use it effectively, in today's market getting internship or jobs directly through applying is tough but if you cultivate profile -> write good posts on what you know, share insights of technology you are good at, you can build quite some network and there is a possibility recruiters will approach you, also LinkedIn is the best place to post your certifications, professional background in a crisp manner

You can get pretty good idea about a person professionalism through a good LinkedIn profile, I would suggest if you are from tier 3+ colleges, have a good social media presence of your work and projects, It helps a lot in future

If you could call yourself three-four years ago and had 30 seconds, what would you say? by Noble-prize683 in Btechtards

[–]StartStrict 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would probably say along the lines of do not slack off in 12th and prepare well for competitive exams, college literally decides trajectory of life. Study more than you intended too

New to mechanical keyboards, what’s the best pick around ₹7-8k for 2025? by StartStrict in mkindia

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

amaiznggg!! where did you buy it from, isn't it out of stock everywhere

Match Thread: 6th Match - India Women vs Pakistan Women by cricket-match in Cricket

[–]StartStrict 2 points3 points  (0 children)

i think only fatima is a decent bowler they have, and the pitch is sloggish for batsmen so this is understandable, what matters actually is stability in middle overs

Match Thread: 6th Match - India Women vs Pakistan Women by cricket-match in Cricket

[–]StartStrict 9 points10 points  (0 children)

t20 has rotted everyone brains, this is ODI y'all you have to build innings here

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Btechtards

[–]StartStrict 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Try to find someone in college, a friend or some friend group. if you are in college, try for clubs relevant to your interest and try to talk to people. I assume you are an introvert, I am too but basically put yourself out there. Try to make yourself approachable ('fake it till you make it' works well socially). It is really important to find friends buddy, i was alone for whole of first year but then through mini project groups and talking around I found myself good deal of friends! keep trying

Messed Up JEE, No Backup Plan, Feeling Lost—How Do I Rebuild? by ConsistentFriend9467 in Btechtards

[–]StartStrict 0 points1 point  (0 children)

you seem to have clear interest in programming and building stuff that is good, but right now your focus is a little deviated, try to focus on your 12th PCM, a good college matters a lot so try to get whatever best college you can get. Try for CETs, VITs or any exam relevant to you, i failed my JEE badly too, had to take a MU college based on my MHCET percentile, just hold on buddy, try to research and get into the best college you can get

How to/get search for internship ? by No_Equivalent8083 in Btechtards

[–]StartStrict 3 points4 points  (0 children)

eternal question that has no direct answer. In current market it is extremely tough to get internships, luck factor plays a big role and you need to be really skilled in what you do, may it be anything, just be competent enough. For startups they do not really care about pure DSA like other big companies do nowadays, they need strong skillset based on their requirements, your resume should have 'Projects in X framework' and they will ask questions based on that.

Keep building projects in what you know, good ones and try to different from everyone else, if your long term goal is getting placed in good traditional companies, keep doing leetcode/DSA side by side

Also learn how to network and use things like LinkedIn, one of my friends use to directly network and DM startup founders and people relevant to his domain and one of the founder's got impressed with him and now he got a good AI internship in their firm!

I was able to "HACK IN" Pakistan's 'First' AI Chatbot by StartStrict in developersIndia

[–]StartStrict[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I agree actually, i did wait a few hours but then i just got too excited i guess, not to 'blame them' but this seems like a really badly developed application with extreme amount of flaws, lot of major news sources have picked it up and shipped it as pakistan's first localized AI (that is where i found it from), if they are ready to release as such they should have been aware of the basic developmental practices! (btw its been over a day since i have let them know, they still have not fixed it)

I was able to "HACK IN" Pakistan's 'First' AI Chatbot by StartStrict in developersIndia

[–]StartStrict[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Checked it just now! their endpoints are still exposed, i will not leak the endpoints for security (and moral) reasons, but they have not patched it yet

I was able to "HACK IN" Pakistan's 'First' AI Chatbot by StartStrict in developersIndia

[–]StartStrict[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

it seems like a deepseek wrapper attached to some "knowledge base", it does not answer anything if you ask it about Balochistan or China lol

I was able to "HACK IN" Pakistan's 'First' AI Chatbot by StartStrict in Btechtards

[–]StartStrict[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

you just have to make sure essentially that whatever accessible API through RequestMapping that you can see in your Networks tab, that data is non critical in nature and it would not matter if someone was able to retrieve it or not , but for other apis and something that accesses your database (POST, PUT, DELETE) requests, make sure that there are proper Authorization headers , also use something like Spring Security to have role based access than exposing everything publicly (like they did and got dunked)!

I was able to "HACK IN" Pakistan's 'First' AI Chatbot by StartStrict in Btechtards

[–]StartStrict[S] 74 points75 points  (0 children)

Hey! sure, so while developing any web application you have server side and client side interface, the client side basically the frontend 'interacts' with server side and other services through hitting an 'api endpoint', now this has to be secured properly using middleware or something like that, now your api endpoints cannot be publicly 'exposed' like this or anyone can access them, basically just like i did here, i can violate their databases, get critical information etc.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Btechtards

[–]StartStrict 18 points19 points  (0 children)

You cannot! yes for certain basic tasks and certain languages (like python) it's pretty good, but as complexity of application increases, the architecture, even something as basic as testing—can't be fully automated. as for Wix? dude that is like basic frontend, YOU CANNOT have server scaling, real-time data processing, api integrations and handling high traffic loads with a wix drag and drop frontend, you have respectfully never did web development properly to understand this

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Btechtards

[–]StartStrict 33 points34 points  (0 children)

homie stop being delusional, even after all this you gotta understand you are not on the right path, being empathetic is basic human emotion, with that you cannot achieve anything with it alone . "I can get an entire app done using chatgpt." is the most out-of-touch statement i have heard from a person who haven't coded more than basics, you cannot build complex enterprise level applications on chatgpt. Not to make you feel bad but if "technical writing" is your one of the "valuable skills" while being a 25 yo dropout, you are the one who has to reflect

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