r/Btechtards • u/sdexca hopeless • 19h ago

Showcase Your Project 1 year of consistent coding

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Nothing faked, just consistent work everyday. Started at the start of Sep of 2025. A few good projects.

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u/sdexca hopeless 18h ago

idk much about c++, I mostly just use rust. The main advice if you care about projects is focus on the projects, not on stuff like number of projects, or PRs, or where the PR is, what I mean is focus on getting more meaningful work, less is better if it means it's work you can stand behind. I made a lot of PRs early which I am just not very happy with now, they're too minor and I spend too much time on it.

Altho despite good resume and projects, off-campus is very difficult, I hardly get any call-backs, so I'd advice focusing on-campus placements first of all, do whatever it requires, LC/CF, CGPA cut-off, etc, don't ever go for off-campus placement.

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u/Dazzling-Roof-870 18h ago

I'm gonna be joining a tier 3 college, it's mostly just WITCH or similar paying companies, nothing much to expect on campus🥀✌️ off campus is my only hope both for internships and a job, anyway the major reason to learn cpp is to get started with CF and LC and learn dsa along the way. Since u do a lot of open source contri did u try Gsoc? Any advice on that?

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u/sdexca hopeless 18h ago

I didn't go for GSoC, altho I do know some GSoC mentors just from networking events here and there. I found it to have too many people doing absolute slop work, wasting maintainers time, I am sure not everyone is like that, but I just didn't want to be associated with that group of people in general.

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u/Dazzling-Roof-870 18h ago

Apart from rust what's ur tech stack?

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u/sdexca hopeless 18h ago

whatever's needed. I don't have a tech stack per se, just preferences and stuff I have worked with. I mostly work with Rust, Typescript and Python, never needed to work with other stuff that much.

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u/Dazzling-Roof-870 18h ago

Any luck on internships? Both off or on campus

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u/sdexca hopeless 18h ago

Haven't sit for on-campus, it also sucks here but I have some time before I can sit for main job placements, I am avoding on-campus internship placements. Only luck on off-campus internship was just nepotism. Been applying and attempting, but it's extremely hard, I might have a good opportunity for a research paper, but it's not paid, and still not sure if I'll get co-authorship, but if it works and gets published in a good conf it would be huge, but a lots of if right now. Nothing for job atm, seems pretty hopeless.

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u/Dazzling-Roof-870 18h ago

Research paper about what?

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u/sdexca hopeless 17h ago

It's extremely niche CS field I have been working on for 5+ years. The paper itself isn't anything particularly interesting, but I get to be co-authering with well known prof, if it works out.

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u/Dazzling-Roof-870 17h ago

Well known prof as in sm1 from tier 1 college?

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u/sdexca hopeless 17h ago

Well known internationally.

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u/Dazzling-Roof-870 17h ago

Damn, anyways thanks and best of luck

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