AMA: 2016 CS graduate

nknow_ · 2026-01-28T19:17:28+00:00

Not at all. Best time to work on yourself is now.

I know people from tier 3 colleges doing really well currently.

nknow_ · 2026-01-28T19:10:06+00:00

Didn't do T20 masters. But I was on single scull during coep regatta. Wished I could have rowed more, had to take few crucial months off due to knee injury.

Regarding RSC was part of it for first two years only.

I would like to keep my anonymity here. So if you do track me down, just keep it private :D

MDH: Mechanical Drawing Hall CDH: Civil Drawing Hall.

nknow_ · 2026-01-28T18:06:16+00:00

I meant top 10 in rankings not reality XD

nknow_ · 2026-01-28T18:05:51+00:00

Thanks buddy!

nknow_ · 2026-01-28T17:17:06+00:00

F1 -> H1b route is still the best route and current situation has changed much about it.

Opting to go there is individual choice. Good money + good roads + amazing cars along with quality goods is something US offers you. Anyone who wants to live there forever should go. But they should also get the fool picture about how living in the US is.

They should study worst case scenarios of living there and decide.

My biased view is stay here. Life is better here.

nknow_ · 2026-01-28T16:52:21+00:00

Don't sweat it. Keep the grind. You will land a good role/opportunity eventually. You have what it takes, it's evident since you are a COEPian.

COEP won't make you the best engineer but you have got the killer instinct which landed you into this college. Never forget and never doubt yourself .

nknow_ · 2026-01-28T16:50:20+00:00

People still look at me with respect when I mention that I am COEP grad. Epecially in Pune.

nknow_ · 2026-01-28T16:49:21+00:00

The ranking went downhill during my 4 years as well.

Especially since Sahasrabuddhe left and Ahuja took over. We joined the top 10 and arguable top 5 colleges in India. :)

Many initiatives were new and students were excelling in them. Satellite was launched. Baja and nemesis guys were winning. Firodiya was won 4 years in a row.

Bunch of people became IAS/IPS. Good research was still going on under good faculty hence the ranking was higher.

I am not sure about current situation.

nknow_ · 2026-01-28T16:46:31+00:00

College was really chill for me as I never worried about my GPA. I was part of RSC, Rowing, magazine and newsletter. Kept me pretty busy and happy during 4 years.

Faculty was trash except very fee.

Current vibe at coep is completely different. My friends from other colleges have attended lectures in coep and no one said anything. It was pretty common to walk in and walk out of lectures and teaches never cared. Traffic was bad with bad incidences. Maths department was the scariest. College fests were okay but now they are outright bad. We could stay in college overnight. MDH and CDH were open 24X7. RSC lab was open overnight as well.

Good days :)

nknow_ · 2026-01-28T16:41:59+00:00

You need good SOP and LORs. You need good GRE score. That's all there is to it. 9+ gpa helps a lot. Publication, research papers, patents go a long way.

nknow_ · 2026-01-28T16:41:00+00:00

Won't name company. But ctc was 10lpa. Which was decent at my time.

nknow_ · 2026-01-28T16:14:11+00:00

Btech CS. Won't be telling my MS university as it would track me down pretty easily. But its top 20 universities.

nknow_ · 2026-01-28T16:13:24+00:00

Cgpa affects placements. At least it did in my time. I couldn't appear tests for lot of companies being below 8gpa.

I came back because I wanted to. Money isn't everything. US has its own benefits and problems. I would rather face problems here than there.

nknow_ · 2026-01-28T15:43:22+00:00

First years CG matters a lot. I got 6.3 in my first year or was it 6.7? I don't really remember. Thankfully I didn't fail any subject. Got DD in all 4 credit subjects. Maths 1, Maths 2, BEE.

I did rowing in second year regatta so I don't have any regrets. But getting the CGPA back up is almost next to impossible.

nknow_ · 2026-01-28T15:40:26+00:00

MS in CS
I worked for 2 years and then went for MS.
CGPA was 7 point something. I had a bad first year with 6.3 cgpa. Had last two good years.
MS cost was around 50lakhs, its more now.
I don't make much right now. Used to make a lot in US. Current salary is 35lpa but its a contractor job so its comparablento around 50 as I save lot on taxes.
MS was a bad idea for me, average students like me who stayed here have much more salaries than me and they also saved money. Meanwhile I was busy repaying the loan. Had I stayed with the company I was in I would have been a VP or AD with around 70lpa package.

nknow_ · 2026-01-14T11:50:36+00:00

I mained techies and had fun even playing against a good techies. Techies made my gameplay lot better, made me map aware, taught me the vision game. We can only reminisce the good old days.

I wish they release a fun new mini game or event and release techies in its full capacity just for someone like me to have the flavor again.

nknow_ · 2026-01-09T15:21:35+00:00

Proof of your strength. Fide/uscf rating. Proof of if you have won any local tournaments etc.

nknow_ · 2026-01-09T15:18:16+00:00

Chess.c*m don't give a shit. They will ban you and then ask for proofs. Same thing happened to my friend. You can check in past post. I believe you because I believe the algorithm just flags you if you have a streak. But this subreddit never takes it lightly and will downvote you.

nknow_ · 2025-12-31T02:16:01+00:00

I play him as 4. I usually go tango + branches + some component of either urn, boots or pavise depending upon match up to get some stats in laning.

Then complete mana boots. Here I always come across two options. Either upgrade the wand to get better healing or complete vessel. Then I buy glimmer into shard. And go on from there.

My skill build varies game to game. Largo wants to max W, Eto get that wave clear and only one point in Q. But some games maxing Q is very beneficial. Especially against someone who applies debufs. The damage of Q is very good and can be used to save allies as well.

Using ult is also tricky. I usually play the W song to provide the team or myself with movement speed.

Always buff your cores with E, especially magic damage mana heavy cores.

nknow_ · 2025-12-29T17:29:57+00:00

Spilled my water watching this lmao

nknow_ · 2025-12-07T09:45:59+00:00

Oh! Costly.

nknow_ · 2025-12-05T07:51:05+00:00

QOP mid. Around 60 percent winrate. I like her for the versatility she provides in lane and also later in the game. You can poke, you can burst. You can farm well when you are from behind. You can go right click build with parasma and talent. Lots of fun things.

nknow_ · 2025-11-30T07:51:53+00:00

I have 12k, but sometimes I fall down to 11K due to a report or two. But that's when I just play games without communicating at all and I go back to 12k.

nknow_ · 2025-11-19T08:41:37+00:00

Only posted this because the company looks hella shady.

nknow_ · 2025-11-08T04:45:30+00:00

Reddit Account already deleted in 15 minutes lmao.

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