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A day I can never forget, 2nd December, the day which gave me the biggest lesson of my life A couple of years back. Same day. IIT Delhi Placement season started. And there was a wave of fear & stress along with the cold wave of Delhi The doom’s day arrived. All our 4 years of IIT hustle & 15 years of prior effort will today get a price tag! “How much LPA did you crack?” Society, relatives, everybody’s gonna ask On Day 1, I was shocked to see the process was so unstructured & random Morning 8 am, Day 1, all top companies (highest packages & reputations) start interviewing simultaneously. By 12 pm the Day 1 slot 1 is kinda over. I was in the hotlist of 2 major companies 1/ one of the top notch FMCG majors (Company P) 2/ one of the top Management Consulting firms (Company B). - These companies kept on taking rounds of interviews since they didn’t want to lose out on a good candidate to their competitors. - These 2 top companies didn’t let me go to my second preference companies who were also simultaneously interviewing. And by that time, slot 1 was about to end. At the end, Company P said "you are selected and waitlisted". (They had their global diversity goals ongoing; and couldn’t take a male right then ;)) And Company B is known for choosing people with good political connections, maybe it helps in consulting :) And because of this, I could not interview with other 3 companies I had on Day 1 At the end of Day 1 Slot 1, I was devastated... Is this what I put past 6 years of my life into? Is this the IIT which I dreamt from childhood? I had a few shortlists in Day 1 slot 2, which I could barely attend because of the traumatic experience. Fast forward to next day, I got 3 offers on the same day and finally got a good placement, - this led to another problem as I have not filled preference - so portal allotted me the Highest LPA one but I wanted to go to the other company - Couldn’t help. I was forced to join 1st company or else sit again the next day. It was even more traumatic, but the experience taught me 1000 lessons in 1 day I remember talking to Prajval & he told me, "Don't stress about this. Tune inme se kahi bhi nahi rukna, kuch apna hi krega” For all the final year students who sat today in the #Placements at all #IITs, and couldn’t make it, don’t lose hope. It’s just a first job. Don’t create your definition of success around it. Since I didn't like my job & The unfairness I saw in the placement process, led me to starting a Skill Assessment company TechCurators, a TC Group Company,and 4 more companies, served South Korean Navy with my AI skills, got a medal from DRDO & covered by IIT Delhi Alumni News. My first job wasn’t the best one but eventually the Universe has a plan. Be Grateful, Do Right ! Saksham Sunint Aryaman Mansi Office of Career Services, IIT Delhi Kalpen Kshitij Sansiddh Simar Simar Paridhi Mallika Shailendra Maitreya Jaskeerat Anagh Akash Shashwat Rishabh Shantanu Simran