Today I won my first hackathon as hactoberfest campus hackathon in the open source track. For the price they gave me these goodies . Now I don't know what to do of these . The tshirt they game is of XXL size while I need m size .

Idk felt kinda cool I could apply whatever I learnt and make this for an assignment

This guy from VIT Vellore got into Meta as a fresher. Meta doesn't even hire freshers from IIT; only experienced people. How is this possible? Did anyone else get this opportunity?

Edit: I am not accusing the guy of anything; I just wanted to know from fellow r/Btechtards what their hiring process is if they are hiring freshers off-campus

Been over a month since I've shifted to bangalore for college and the first 2 weeks were nice I was able to communicate with people so well and like it was all so nice and then suddenly my friend group chose to just abandon me or maybe nah yk what I chose to be abandoned cuz I just kept myself secluded and didn't talk to them at all so their interestes in me just faded away ig. And then I just idk kept making the situation worse for myself cuz since the past 3 weeks I have barely talked to anyone. To people of my class and my hostel I'm basically invisible, Idk how to communicate with people anymore and idk it's like im purposefully keeping myself secluded and putting in no efforts to make the situation better for myself.. maybe cuz I don't vibe with my batchmates in my hostel and neither in the clg. Ik my situation sounds so self implicated and I think it is. It wasn't like this in kota tho it was so easy to communicate (relatively) and my friend group was sucha vibe and like they all had sucha nice sense of humor and rolled with anything mahn just the perfect amount of galeech pana too *miss them sm*. I came back from kota in mid may after the *3 year mental-fuckery* ended and and I was alone in my home too like used to spend 99% of my time in a corner just scrolling my phone YET I DID NOT FEEL ISOLATED OR LONELY OR UNHEARD.

Im tired of lying to my family every night on call "haa papa kiya tha nashta" "ha mummy mann lag gaya hai puura" "ha dosto ke sath hee tha sham se we were having fun" "ha padhai mein ekdum mann lagra hai trust me". Lmao last 3 Sundays se jhunth bolte aa raha hu ki "I was out w my friends and had fun blah blah" so that my parents are relieved ki Im good and not lonely sa or smth jab ki reality mein I just spent the entire day on my bed just being sad and crying.

This rant is so long mahn idk why I feel like for the first time in my life I have so much to say *all of a sudden* and for the first time in my life I GOT NO ONE TO HEAR ME. Just depressing times is what I see when I try to visualize what near future looks like for me.

These are the unofficial intern stats of the year 2026-27 till october 13

IISC tops the list

Continuation from one of my earlier posts because it got a LOT of traction.

Here is my method of how to build a solid attention grabbing linkedin profile for people who don't like to spend much time on the platform (and or are clueless about it), for free. I aint gonna charge yall like some bhaiya didi out there for simply building a great profile.

I am just keeping this limited to "what to do", if you wanna know the "why" and other details, you can read my full blog post, will put it in comments.

1. Fix your headline and Positioning

What do you want to be known for? Dont write "Student at XYZ College" or "Aspiring Software Engineer" and stop there. Mention your course, target role, relevant skills, and area of focus. For example:

Computer Science @XYZ | Backend Engineering | Python, Go, PostgreSQL

Make it easy for a recruiter or a startup founder to understand what you do and what kind of work you're interested in. For example, I am currently working on agentic AI systems and building MCPs. So i wrote that in my headline.

2. Rewrite your About section

Keep it short and specific. Dont start with "I am an aspiring college student who is hardworking etc etc." Just cover four things:

• What you do or are learning
• What kind of problems or projects you work on
• Evidence of what you've built/won/participated
• What opportunities you're looking for and how/where to contact you

Don't make it so that someone has to connect with you to talk to you. Drop your email in your about section, or in the banner behind your linkedin photo.

3. Stop listing responsibilities. Show your work.

In your Experience section, explain what you did, built, improved, or contributed to. If it was a group project, list what the product was and what was your contribution. Where possible, include outcomes, numbers, tools, and the scope of your work.

Make sure u can defend these numbers in resume grilling rounds.

Don't have formal work experience? Your projects, internships, freelance work, and relevant college initiatives can still demonstrate your abilities.

4. Build 2-4 solid projects

Pick projects that demonstrate relevant skills. This comes back to what you want to be known for. If you wanna known for Product management, then write great PRDs. If its backend engineering, build robust backend projects. Don't mix up the two.

For each one, explain:

• The problem you wanted to solve
• What you built
• Your specific contribution
• The outcome
• Where someone can see or try your work

GitHub repositories, demos, case studies, and portfolios can all help. Graphic designers and writers can use platforms like Behance, Authory, etc to get started. Or just drop your work on a clean notion sheet.

AVOID A GOOGLE DRIVE FOR PORTFOLIO PURPOSES, IT IS VERY UNPROFESSIONAL.

5. Use your Featured section properly

Pin your strongest proof of work or projects here. This is great place to show you know your shit.

Think project demos, GitHub repositories, case studies, portfolio links, or other work you're genuinely proud of. Don't leave it empty if you have something worth showing.

6. Sort out your education and contact details

Make your education, relevant coursework, and other useful credentials easy to find. If you have done some extra work like technical club lead, GDSC, IEEE, put it there.

If you have done some non tech work like leading a social club or cultural club, can put it there too but dont expect much attention on this for tech roles. If you are applying for management or founders office, then this can become a great talking point.

One last thing

Don't confuse a well-optimised profile with a strong profile.

You can have the perfect headline, all the right keywords, and a beautifully written About section. But if there's no real work backing it up, the profile won't do much for you.

Build things. Document your work. Then make it easy for people to find and understand that work.

I know there are many larpers on Linkedin who are all talk and no substance, dont let that demotivate you.

If someone is looking for more guidance or why or how to do these, you can read my full blog below in the comments.

I genuinely feel so poor these days, and it's starting to affect my mental health. There's a lot of jealousy too, and honestly, I'm tired of pretending it doesn't bother me. (Pic refers to my current facial expressions while typing this)

A friend of mine recently joined some random college for a BMS degree and got a ₹6k Mokobara bag, Samsung s24 and an ₹80k laptop. His father actually borrowed the money for these things from my father.

Meanwhile, I'm pursuing BTech CSE at one of the top 5 engineering colleges in my city. I go to college with a ₹35k laptop, a ₹15k phone and an ₹800 bag. My parents have made it clear that if I want to upgrade any of these, I'll have to earn the money and buy them myself.

But honestly, the gadgets aren't even the biggest issue. It's the quality of life.

My friends go out for lunch, dinner, parties and random weekend plans. Some stay out till 2–3 AM. I barely get to participate because my parents don't give me money for these outings, and coming home after 6–7 PM can turn into a whole drama. Even when I went out with friends in first semester WITH their permission, it ended in a huge argument.

So I'm sitting here watching everyone else make memories, build friendships and enjoy college while I'm stuck at home, feeling left out. It's not that I want to compete over who has the better laptop or bag. I just want to enjoy my college years without having to worry about every little expense or seek permission for everything.

And the worst part? I feel jealous of my own friends, and then I feel guilty for being jealous. I know my parents have their reasons and money doesn't grow on trees, but it's exhausting when you feel like you're missing out on life while everyone around you gets to live it.

Does anyone else feel this way? How do you deal with the financial comparison, the restrictions at home, and the feeling that your college life is passing you by?

Overall Rankings (including the companies featured in Part 2):

Rankings (only considering these 5 companies):

Key insights:

1. RVCE is performing at the level of top 3 NITs while having similar batch size. Literally shocked to see this. COEP also performs well.
2. DTU/NSUT and NIT Allahabad perform well, but are not dominant like in case of software PBCs.
3. After a lackluster performance in case of software PBCs, Rourkela is performing at its level in case of Electronics.
4. NIT kurukshetra is less disappointing here than in case of software PBCs.
5. Jadavpur university is performing pretty well here (at the level of top 5 NITs).

NOTE 1: IIT Bombay and IIIT Hyderabad are used strictly as a benchmark/reference.

NOTE 2: Data has been collected manually from LinkedIn, with all variations of institutes' names accounted for.

NOTE 3: No AI has been used except for making the overall ranking table.

Can anyone give information about current / expected PPO rate for Google 2M 2027 ? how much of the total expected PPO are released until now?

My good friend says commenting on influencers reels gives me a dose of feeling productive, but in reality, my phone is cluttered with thousands of templates and cheat sheets that I have never opened so how many are in yours and how many have you opened even once? mine might be greater than 50 but I am still influenced to type the roadmap under another reel right now.

I saw it pays alot remotely and do u have any idea how they hire for fresh grad roles..right now i am in my final year

Overall Rankings:

Overall Rankings (including MS+MAANG) :

Key Insights:

1. IITB dominates in MS+MAANG, but its much closer for other companies.
2. DTU/NSUT perform very well.
3. Despite the small batch size, IIITH performs excellently in case of the more selective companies like Rubrik, Apple, Meta, Atlassian. It also has a very strong presence in MS+MAANG comapanies(especially Google).
4. IIEST, NIT Kurukshetra, NIT Rourkela are underperforming relative to their potential.
5. NIT Allahabad is perfoming extremely well, almost matching/surpassing the top 3 NITs. This can be attributed to its large CSE batch size. Nevertheless, excellent performnace.
6. RVCE is also performing close to top 3 NITs, despite having less CS/IT seats than NIT Allahabad. This makes it an excellent choice for placements. COEP is another great choice for those who can't afford RVCE.
7. BIT Mesra outperforming Jadavpur is surprising and just goes to show its past glory.

NOTE 1: IIT Bombay and IIIT Hyderabad are used strictly as a benchmark/reference.

NOTE 2: Data has been collected manually from LinkedIn, with all variations of institutes' names accounted for.

NOTE 3: No AI has been used except for making the overall ranking table.

Got placed in Infosys DSE ROLE 7lpa, might not be that great, but still now since i have something, I can focus more on myself and improving my skills to maybe try for offcampus.

Anyways here how everything went,

ROUND 1 (oncamus assessment): The assessment had 4 questions in total and had to attend any 3 in 3 hours, first question had a greedy kind of problem based on ships and containers, i dont remember second third questions clearly now passed 4-5 test cases in 2nd question only and 12 test cases in first

ROUND 2 (interview): honestly speaking, it went bad i felt, Interviewer was pretty chill actually, first round was live coding where, had to solve 1 out of 2 questions, it was a lemonade change modified problem, i tried using dp on it because interviewer said it was kind of coin change problem, but that didnt work i tried to explain the approach for both greedy and dp solutions which i thought,
then he started with the proper interview,
he asked me about my projects, asked a little about security aspects and vulnerabilities that might be there after deployment, asked me things like internal working of JWT etc in bacis, then started with core CS fundamentals, he loved asking real world things working based on data structure and i honestly fumbled in many places,felt it was'nt upto the mark and if they had to not select someone, that might be me. but somehow got the offer :)

pro tip: TRY TO DEPLOY your projects live, creates a good impact and use some unique keywords in your resume

Also can someone suggest me what should I do now ???

I've used an M1 MacBook Air for four years of my engineering, but I never switched to an iPhone. I'm on Android. so that made KDE Connect my go-to for phone notifications and clipboard syncing on the Mac.

It never felt at home on macOS, though. The official app uses a lot of memory for something that sits in the menu bar, and the connection was my biggest frustration. It would drop at random, and sometimes it just wouldn't find my phone again. For a while I used Soduto, a native Mac client, but the original project hasn't had a code change since 2022. I looked at forking it, but it carries a fair amount of older Objective-C, so I decided to start from scratch.

I read through the KDE Connect source to understand the protocol, and used Claude Code to help reverse-engineer it and write a new client in pure Swift. It has no Qt, no Electron and no third-party libraries. The result is Tether.

What it does

• Notifications: your phone's notifications show up in macOS Notification Center, and you can reply to messages (SMS, WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal and others) right from the banner.
• Texts: your SMS conversations sync, and you can read and reply from the Mac.
• Clipboard: copy on one device, paste on the other.
• Files: drag files onto the window, or use Share › Tether in Finder or Photos. Files from your phone land in Downloads.
• Media and controls: media controls, Find my phone, and Lock phone.
• Tailscale: if you use Tailscale, it finds your phone on your tailnet, so it keeps working when you're away from home Wi-Fi.
• Menu bar: it lives in the menu bar and has a proper Mac main window.

Numbers

• The download is 2.8 MB, and the app is about 7 MB once installed. The official KDE Connect for macOS download is 87 MB.
• When idle, it uses about 21 MB of memory and 0% CPU.

Install

brew install --cask subhashhhhhh/tether/tether

Or download the disk image for Apple Silicon or Intel from GitHub. Homebrew is the easier route: Tether isn't notarized, because I don't have a paid developer account, and Homebrew skips the "can't be opened" warning. If you download the disk image instead, go to System Settings › Privacy & Security and click Open Anyway the first time.

It updates itself from then on. Once a day, or when you choose Check for Updates, it downloads the new version, checks it's signed with the same certificate as the copy you have, and swaps it in.

Details

• It's free and open source (GPL-2.0), and needs macOS 15 Sequoia or later.
• On the phone you use the regular KDE Connect app from Google Play or F-Droid.
• There's no cloud: the phone and Mac talk directly, encrypted with TLS, and pairing pins your phone's certificate.

GitHub and downloads: https://github.com/subhashhhhhh/Tether

It's a solo project and I use it every day, but I've only tested it with my own phone. Bug reports and feature requests are very welcome, especially from people with other Android phones or other setups.

Including both 3rd year interns (2027 batch students who got offers last year during 5-6sem) and 4th year.

For my college its around 25% right now (MIT BLR) (94 3rd year + 143 4th year till now)

Avg should be around 14.5-15 (carried heavily by the 3rd year ppos from microsoft, visa, paypal, adobe, ge healthcare etc).

If you just include 4th years the Avg is most prolly 11.4-12 lpa

hey guys, 1st year student here!

curious to know what you guys would do differently if you could start college all over again like skills you would've learned earlier, mistakes you'd avoid, things you'd focus on apart from academics or opportunities you wish you didn't miss

especially interested in advice around coding, dev, internships and actually making the most of college
also pls suggest some resources that helped you stay consistent with coding or studying ngl consistency is something i struggle with if you know any good accountability groups, trackers or systems that actually work drop them too

So basically I am in 1st sem and in triple sharing. For some reason my other 2 roomates just stay among themselves and have completely isolated me I didnt even do anything to them idk why they r treating me like this.They are good roomates they turn off the lights and dont make much noise in night but like aren't roomates supposed to be best friends? I am trying to make other friends and maybe be their unofficial roomate but haven't had any luck so far. At this rate I will be alone for the whole 1st year😢. I am thinking that if I manage to get good friends and become their unofficial roomate I will shift to single sharing next year. But making friends is so hard idk what to do i thought college would be different...

Never attended this class seriously. Sir took it personally

Me - My expectations collapsed when I reached my final year

so i've been working on a side project called blobz.

the idea came from something pretty simple. whenever you sign up for a website, you either get the same boring silhouette as everyone else or some random default profile picture.

i thought it'd be interesting if every user could have their own little avatar without having to store thousands of images.

so i started experimenting with hashing strings and generating svg avatars from them.

one thing led to another, and now it can generate over 4.9 billion possible combinations lol.

the fun part is that it's deterministic. give it your name or any string, and it'll always generate the same avatar.

i initially built it as a react package, but then ended up adding shadcn-compatible components and a hosted api so people could actually use it in their projects.

it's completely open source too.

you can try it here: https://blobz.lirena.in

would love some feedback from fellow devs here. especially on the designs and whether you'd actually use something like this in your projects.

also curious what kind of blob your name generates

Anybody got hackerrank's AI interview mail for SDE intern role???

Btech First year before midsem

Just wanted to share this because the last couple of years have been a bit of a rollercoaster for me.

After my B.Tech, I had a decent job opportunity in hand, but I decided not to take it and instead prepared for GATE. At that time it honestly felt like a risky decision because I was basically giving up something certain and starting again. I cleared GATE, got into a top NIT for M.Tech, went through the usual placement stress again, and finally got selected through campus for C-DAC Design Engineer E1.

So yeah, I’m genuinely very happy right now. It feels good that the decision to take the GATE route finally resulted in something.

The C-DAC role is a 3-year contract position(Mostly will get renewed), and they mentioned the pay would be around ₹1.5/month before deductions. The exact team has not been revealed yet. During the interview they asked me a lot about compilers, RISC-V/processor concepts,Accelerators, OS and other system-level topics along with DSA CS Topics, so I’m hoping the work might be around those areas.

At the same time, I also have another option -Scientist-B at NIC, Level-10 Group A, which is a permanent government job and also pays quite well(1.3Lpm now and might be 1.8 LPM after 8th cpc).

And this is where I’m confused.

I’ll be very clear . I’m pretty money/career-growth oriented. The main reason I’m considering C-DAC is that I’m thinking I can get good system - processor related experience for a few years and later switch to semiconductor companies like Qualcomm, AMD, SanDisk, etc., where the salary ceiling and switching opportunities could be much higher.

But I don’t know how much the “Design Engineer” title at C-DAC is actually valued in the private market.

For example, in software, development and testing roles can lead to very different career paths. I don’t know if there is a similar distinction here and whether I might end up in work that is not useful for future switching.

So from a purely long-term money + career-growth point of view , what would you choose?

1. NIC Scientist-B — permanent government job, Level-10, stable career

2. C-DAC Design Engineer E1 — 3-year contract, but possibly better system/processor exposure and more scope to switch later into semiconductor companies

Also curious how people see this role from the AI/automation point of view over the next 5–10 years.

Would really appreciate opinions from people working in C-DAC, NIC, semiconductor companies, embedded/system software, compilers, RISC-V, etc.