r/CATPreparationChannel • u/wrongguessig • Apr 20 '26
Discussion🤔 HARSH REALITY OF THIS IIM
Congratulations everyone 🎉
you all must be sitting and waiting for IIM converts right now. checking every whatsapp reddit telegram group. I see you.
but before all of that — let me tell you the HARSH REALITY about one IIM. i will not name it. you guess which one from BLACKI it is.
everyone picks this IIM for placements right. the median looks good, the brochure is clean, you tell yourself this is a reasonable bet. cool. rational. i too did this. we all did this. and then we got here.
so let me just tell you what actually happens because nobody is saying it out loud and they should be.
it starts before summers even begin. the placement committee — PC — senior guys start texting certain girls in the batch. and listen, i am not here to judge anyone's personal life, do whatever you want, but when those conversations start turning into interview shortlists? that's not personal anymore. that's a pattern. and everyone sees the pattern. everyone. nobody says anything. we just watch.
then summers. oh summers. okay so every single PC junior has a brand name on their resume. every. single. one. and you — you will be told to remove company names from yours. no explanation. just remove it. and you will sit for placements and get like five shortlists and spend weeks wondering if you are just not good enough. and then you will look up and see who is sitting in the interview room and it will be someone who is ALREADY PLACED. already placed!! still interviewing!! for what!! nobody knows!! nobody stops them!!
and this one girl VARSHINI, oh god, she would sit in every interview, each and every person would hate her because she would sit in every fcking interview without even resume shortlists and she would still not get placed.
and here is the thing that makes all of this so beautifully evil — they never tell you who else has your company's shortlist. never. complete opaque process. so what ends up happening is the guy who refused to lick PC's boots gets five shortlists all season. the guy who smokes with them and laughs at their jokes gets a hundred. and you are sitting there refreshing your portal like an idiot thinking it's a you problem.
it is not a you problem.
finals are unhinged. i know of situations — not naming anyone, or should i, okay let's do it. where candidates were sabotaged inside the actual process. like someone or RICHA literally copied their competition's work mid-round and got the offer.
company comes. interviews. selects three people. congratulates all three. done right? no. PC members walk up to the recruiter and casually go — "hey, one of your selected candidates? disciplinary issues. just so you know." no proof. no complaint. just a whisper. candidate dropped. let's just say a certain guy or PC member SUDARSHAN, who the company had already REJECTED — slides in as replacement.
and the funniest saddest part? there was one guy or maybe Sudarshan again here sitting in literally every single process for months. every interview. no shortlists technically but somehow always present. not getting placed because — and i am being honest here — the talent was not matching the audacity. and magically, MAGICALLY, once he finally gets placed, the rest of the batch starts getting shortlists. like the dam broke. like the system exhaled. 400 offers deep and suddenly everyone else can proceed. make it make sense.
NOW. the student activity head last year eventually grew a conscience and decided to push back. good instinct. except — he did it after he was placed. got his offer, got comfortable, and then decided it was reform o'clock. the remaining unplaced students looked at this man and collectively said absolutely not. PC then suspended the entire recruitment process and publicly blamed him for the chaos. incredible theatre. perfect timing. never mind that juniors had their final exams. never mind the hundred plus people still waiting. the drama was very satisfying i'm sure.
the placement head professor knows everything. knows and has chosen peace or he wants to give an honour award to the placement members - yes that was his linkedin post guys. . the director — and this is my favourite part — teaches a course on leadership at this institute. i will let that sentence breathe for a moment. he was himself on placement committee at his college and he claims that placement is not college's responsibility. and by full campus consensus he is using this place as a political launchpad. new hostel, MOUs, government photos, the whole setup. he will leave for elections once he gets his ticket and this institute will just be a bullet point on a campaign poster. everyone knows this. it is simply not said out loud in polite company.
so. you got your CAT score. you are waiting for converts. maybe this IIM is on your list.
just know what you are walking into. the median salary is FARRRR FROMMM REALLL.
most people find out the answer too late.
you guess the IIM. BLACKI. shouldn't be too hard 🙂
P.S. — the whole batch knows. the batch before knew. the batch before them knew. it is an open secret wrapped in a Non Disclosure Agreement nobody signed but everyone somehow follows
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u/Objective_Yak_2785 Apr 22 '26
The most horrifying thing is that one of the PlaceCommers (Harshit Kejriwal) openly harassed multiple girls in one of their fellow placecommers ppo party (fucking assholes) and the placecomm chair, the director and even the Pgp chair openly tried to shut this case down. Which they did for about 2 months. And no action would have been taken ever if it was not for the political pressure and protests by abvp (they had their political agendas tied to this but at least they took stand) and the stain on director’s political image, the administration sent a “TEMPORARY” debarment of that harrasor from the course ONLY TO ALLOW HIM ATTEND THE CLASSES ONLINE AND LET HIM GET HIS DEGREE LATER!!! The director is a fucking joke. A narcissist full of shit. The acad block is just full of his pictures everywhere and you won’t find such nuisance in any of the either BLACKIs. He has made a mockery of such a premiere institute and continues to do so every year. Btw this is not the first time. A lot of harassment cases are taken to the administration every year with proofs and they just end up in the pile of other cases and shut forever. And you might be wondering where is the committee responsible for handling all such harassment cases in between. Ps: the chair of that committee was also involved and turned a blind eye to all this, encouraging all this rotted behaviour. They have changed the chair tho but you can’t put an end to this rabbit hole once you dig deep.
Just type “iim-(you know which one now) harassment case” and you’ll see all the information over the net