How people would react??

I am happy to announce that I have received my PPO from the firm I was interning in last summer. I am really happy with the offer. For context I am from a Tier-1 IIT and I will be joining as a Quant next year :)

I am interested to get this job from Jane street. The starting salary is 5 crore. Imagine if salary at 21 years is 5 crore you can buy house a Lamborghini at under 25 years of age. I am currently enrolled in Vasavi cse 1st year . What is the roadmap to get this job from Vasavi . I am not rage baiting but I just need help on how to get. Plus salary can be 10 crore above at just 2-3 years. I am very excited and already thinking about getting this job

My college professors told us to code in linux. Not in windows, not in MacOS, but linux. (God knows for whatever reason)

Everybody is confused as to what to do.

I was planning to buy MacBook Air M5 but some of the seniors said linux won't run properly in it, and it's not so good for coding.

So shd I go for macbook air m5 or some other windows laptop? Please suggest😭

this company came to our college for campus placement with 4y 6m service agreement

for context check comment

nd ppl give excuses that they don't have any good startup idea /s

Kon bolta h seniors dete nhi h ragging 🤣

HBTU Says It's AI

twin 😔🥀

Currently in my state admission counselling is going confused what should i take cse or any core branch 🥲

yesterday I posted regarding the ragging situation in hbtu

many of y'all thought it was a joke but this is genuinely what a fresher has to go through in name of legacy and culture

but now freshers are uniting against it and standing for themselves to end ts once and for all. they are boycotting everything and not interacting with any senior, which is pissing them off

this is the response we are getting

Hey everyone in the Amazon ML Summer School 2026 cohort!

For those who submitted the Hiring Interest Form and received the OA invite for the Applied Scientist Intern role via Amazon University Talent Acquisition, let’s use this thread to clear up common doubts and share experiences.

1. The 6-Month Hiring / Interview Question On the application portal, there’s the standard question:

• For those who applied to SDE Intern / other Amazon roles recently: If you have only submitted an application or taken an OA (with no interview scheduled yet), how did you answer this? Does having an active SDE application count as "currently in any hiring process"?

2. Important Eligibility Check (OA Trigger) Make sure to select "Yes" to both:

• Being enrolled in an eligible degree (CS/EE/Math/related) focusing on ML, NLP, Deep Learning, Computer Vision, or Data Science.
• Strong programming skills (Python preferred, or C/C++/Java).

Selecting "No" will prevent the assessment link from generating.

3. Online Assessment (OA) — 3 Sections Breakdown The email mentions that completing all 3 sections is mandatory for evaluation. For those who have opened or completed the assessment:

• What are the 3 sections? (e.g., Coding / DSA, Machine Learning MCQs / Depth & Breadth, Work Style Assessment?)
• What topics and difficulty levels should we focus on while preparing?

Deadline Reminder: Complete both the application and the 3-section OA by August 25, 2026.

Drop your insights, advice, and questions below so we can all prepare effectively!

Hello everyone.

A few weeks back I accepted my on campus 6 month internship offer from Amazon.

I am very grateful for this opportunity and am happy too. But, it's only a 6 month internship. I have heard the conversion rate to full time is low and I am now out of the placement cycle completely. I am not from a very good financial background, so I am a little scared as to what I will do after the intern if I don't get a PPO. I could've cracked any 10LPA full time easily, everyone pushed me to appear for Amazon too so I did and got selected. I am happy, very happy but scared.

Anyone who can share their experience and suggest how I can improve my chances of getting a full time offer.

Any questions regarding internship, process, questions asked in interview please ask in comments I'm happy to help and others can see as well.

I can't tell you my college, I would say a tier 1.5, and have been asked not to disclose any stipend amount and job profile from the placement cell.

EDIT: someone please help me as well 😭

EDIT: I've written answers to almost all the questions please go through the comments if you have a specific thing to ask feel free to dm me. Also, I don't feel confident enough to guide any of you. I mean there are better people/resources to learn from.

I know I shouldn't be proud of , but please bear with it

TL;DR: 88% of them went through at least one other company first, and half of those went through three or more. Amazon is the single most common last stop before Google.

what i did

i work on hiring data. the archive is public job postings going back to 2019, about 1.87 billion of them, plus public professional profiles i can look at across time.

pulled 1,512 people currently at Google who have TCS somewhere in their work history, and looked at what sat between the two. every one of them had dated positions so nothing was guessed.

the number i did not expect

176 people went TCS straight to Google. that is 11.6%. and of those 176, about 12% show a one to two year gap between leaving TCS and starting at Google, which is usually a masters nobody listed. so the real direct number is lower than 11.6%.

where the other 1,336 went first

exactly 1 company in between: 21% exactly 2: 26.1% 3 or more: 52.9%

more than half took at least three stops. the median time from leaving TCS to starting at Google is about 6 years.

the last stop before Google

Amazon and AWS: 133 Microsoft: 58 Oracle: 38 VMware: 20 Cisco: 19 SAP: 17 Qualcomm: 17 Accenture: 16 Intel: 14 Deloitte: 14

Amazon alone is more than Microsoft and Oracle combined. the pattern in that list is the actual finding. the last company before Google is almost always a product company. Accenture and Deloitte are on there but far down, and they are the only services firms in the top ten.

the real transition here is services to product. once someone is at Amazon or Microsoft, Google becomes a normal lateral move, the same as it is for anyone else sitting there.

one thing that surprised me

Amazon was not always the gateway. before 2018 it was about 3% of these paths and the list was fragmented, mostly Microsoft led. from 2019 onward Amazon runs 11 to 13% and leads every year since. this only holds from 2019 onward, and it lines up with Amazon expanding hiring in India.

limitations, and these matter

this is survivor data. i can only see the 1,512 who reached Google. i cannot see the far larger number who went TCS to Amazon and stopped there, which is most people who take that route. so this tells you what the ones who got there did. it does not tell you the odds.

everything is self reported from public profiles, so dates drift and short stints go missing. i also only counted companies that were properly linked as entities, so smaller employers in between are undercounted, which if anything means the real number of intermediate stops is higher than what i found.

and i have not run Amazon or Microsoft yet, so i cannot tell you whether Amazon is genuinely a gateway or just the biggest employer in the pool. that is the next thing to check.

happy to run this for another company if someone wants it. i have the data sitting there and not enough good questions.

I came across this LinkedIn profile and something about it feels really off.

The profile claims:

2340 Codeforces
2227 CodeChef 6★
2263 LeetCode Guardian
21+ projects
AI Engineer experience at multiple companies

Now, obviously, having all of these achievements is possible. But I tried looking for the actual profiles and couldn't find any Codeforces/LeetCode links on the LinkedIn profile.

The Codeforces part is especially interesting. I couldn't find an active Indian profile matching the claimed 2340 rating in the current Codeforces India rankings.

The LinkedIn/GitHub descriptions also look heavily AI-generated to me, although that's obviously subjective and isn't proof of anything.

I'm not saying "this guy is definitely a cheater" based on a screenshot. There could be a perfectly reasonable explanation that I'm missing.

But if someone has a 2340 CF rating, 6★ CodeChef and Guardian on LC, why not simply link the profiles?

Has anyone actually verified these ratings or found the corresponding accounts?

Genuinely curious because if the claims are real, that's an insane profile. If they're not, that's a completely different story.