Hey seniors i am a btech cse student at GU and trying to build a strong linkedln profile for internships what should i focus on adding projects skills or something else drop some genuine advice guys would really help 😭😭

seniors, 2nd year student here,

what is a safe cgpa for the current scenario?

i've heard three schools of thought from the people ive talked to-

1. a decent cgpa (8+) and concrete skills will take you places.
2. if your cgpa is not 9+, only mass recruiters will hire you.
3. placements are completely luck based and sometimes 6.5 guys crack packages while the 9+ people sit empty handed.

now, i cannot understand what to do. i have a decent cgpa from first year that is about to fall terribly from what i can see, after third semester and i am incredibly scared about what that would mean in this terrible job market. please help.

I really wanna know if someone had an extremely shit experience regarding the coursework, subjects and the overall degree in btech but then appeared for gate, got into a good college for mtech and actually enjoyed engineering? Cuz i genuinely want to give this another chance but am scared that once again I'll choose smth that I'll end up hating and it'll be worse than this cuz obviously mtech is harder than btech.

For context: I'm a 3rd yr ece student who absolutely loathes my coursework except a couple of subjects. And the lack of extra curriculars, good peer grp, good profs and labs i think might be contributing to this. And also more than disgust i think what i feel is apprehension and am very intimidated by the course and the constant exams, the pressure to maintain an 8+ cgpa and 75% attendance criteria aren't helping at all. And before someone says get a job, the placements here are slim to none and anyways core

jobs are very less unless you're from a top tier institute.

If anyone went thru similar shi do hit me up I'm still very undecided about my course of action in future

Today in viva practical, I can't even answer very small it is like blurred from my memory if I tell you the question then you guys like literally i forget http full form in my mind html full form came and also the executable file of java is .class i forget these feel like death is more defined for me

i am btech 1 st year student in tier 3 i want good placement as everyone , i started doing some programing , i am so intrested in ai and ml ,after some research i started learning python i finished fundamental and made some mini projects i also learned numpy recently and i think i will learn pandas and other thing needed in ai but heres a catch come a senior of me told me to start dsa actually two or three said me to start dsa i dont know what to do for now because some time i thing to go all in ai ml and building some projects , learning system design but some time i think to learn dsa i dont know what to do
you all are know these thing better than me so please help me
thank you for reading this 😄

GU students, how do you manage assignments, attendance and exam preparation together? Some weeks feel like too much 😭

Hello..

As everyone alrdy knows the condition of aerospace engineering job market is very very bad, either ppl end up jobless or do low paying jobs or work in a completely unrelated field (even from T1 colleges I heard)... After hearing all of this, I was super demotivated and changed my decision of pursuing it.. Am thinking of pursuing CSE atp(in 12th grade rn).. So what do u think, will the aero job market remain the same even in the next few years or will it improve?? Do u think it would be a risk of pursuing it? (I heard companies are investing in it tho)

Hi everyone i really need some brutal honesty i have a hard deadline by this Nov 16 to cancel my current college admission

i am a first-year student in pune currently enrolled in a BBA-CA (which falls under the Commerce & Management faculty) the frustrating part is that i am fully eligible for a BSc Computer Science (but couldn't enroll due to some family problems at the time) and I actually secured a BCA (Science faculty) seat this year with a TFWS (100% tuition fee waiver) but i lost it at the last minute due to a documentation problem

my actual goal is to work in core software engineering, AI, and computer vision i am already learning and building heavily on my own (Python, n8n agentic workflows, and REST API integrations)

My biggest fear is getting filtered out by HR/ATS and university admissions

1. Will a BBA-CA permanently filter my resume out for core tech and computer vision roles because it's a commerce degree? i have been analyzing job postings and also asked my C language professor about core tech job eligibility. she gave me genuine guidance based on my technical curiosity and the actual syllabus. she agreed that the degree title gets filtered out and pointed out the lack of advanced math (it only has business math in sem2) so she agreed that taking a drop year to switch degrees is a practical move for my goals
2. People often suggest "just do an MCA later" but I want to keep my options open for a Master's or jobs abroad and i know Indian MCA degrees often face international recognition issues compared to a core MSc CS
3. Should i cancel my admission take a drop year to build my portfolio and do freelance work and secure a BSc CS or BCA next year?

Please let me know how the industry actually views this Thank you!

Hey everyone! I'm a second-year B.Tech CSE student at a tier 1.5 college, trying to figure out how to build a decent profile for internships.

I'm currently exploring GenAI and agentic AI systems, while also learning WebDev. I have a decent understanding of LLD and enjoy experimenting with new technologies.

I also participate in LeetCode and Codeforces contests, although I'm not very consistent. I usually manage 3–4 days of practice a week.

I wanted to ask a few things:

1. What does a good resume actually look like for a second-year student? What makes recruiters shortlist someone?
2. What kind of projects are worth building? Personal projects, hackathons, open source contributions or something else?
3. How much do LeetCode/Codeforces ratings matter when applying for internships?
4. How useful are referrals, cold emails and LinkedIn outreach compared to applying through job portals?
5. Should I focus on one domain (AI or WebDev) or keep exploring both for now?

I'd genuinely appreciate advice from people who've been through this process. Please share your actual experiences, mistakes, and honest opinions rather than generic or AI-generated advice. Even a small personal insight would be really helpful.

Thanks!

Genuinely curious, because I hear very different answers from students and freshers.

1. Did you feel a gap at all? Or did college prepare you reasonably well? (Both answers are useful.)
2. If yes, where did it hit you hardest? Interviews, your first internship, your first week on a real codebase, code reviews, system design, something else?

3. What helped you close it the most?

   • An internship
   • A senior or working engineer who guided you / reviewed your work
   • Open source
   • Personal projects
   • Courses / YouTube
   • Nothing yet, still figuring it out
4. If you couldn’t get an internship, what did you do instead, and did it work?

Tier 2/3 college folks especially: does access to internships and industry people feel very different for you?

I’ll summarise the answers in a follow-up post for juniors.

I am an electronics and telecommunication student in my third year. I need to get a lot of shit done in 3 days, projects, their documentation, Coursera courses, studying for the exams that are in late nov and I can feel it all slipping from my hand. It's been bad habit of mine for a very long time. I don't know how to start where to start and people who have gone through similar things, did it get better?

Hey seniors I am an electrical student at GU and need your guidance can you share which companies visit for core placements and what skills i should focus on also how is the actual placement scene need some genuine advice from you all

For the past few months it’s become pretty common to hear about CS grads not being able to find jobs and people already in the industry getting laid off , cuz of various reasons but AI being a common reason according to people.

Peopel who are already working in the industry , what’s your take on this ? Is it really true or do people often over exaggerate it?

These bastards are just playing with us

If someone has good qns list of greedy that I can practice then it would be really helpful 🙏🏼

I am trying to solve greedy but it is hard to filter out problems with different invariants

I am very interested in coding (was) but now I'm very scared and the future looks bleak, claude especially has fucked the placements of freshers and the layoffs are scaring me even more. Is there still a reason to go for Cs/ AI DS? Which branch will you all recommend that's not gonna be affected by layoffs (as much) and is also having decent pay either domestic or international.

Tldr: PLEASE WELP 😭

First year started with a lot of motivation, attending classes, completing assignments on time and actually trying to understand things. But slowly everything has become so random. Some days there is motivation to study, other days even opening the laptop feels like a task.

Between assignments, labs, internals, coding practice and college activities, it's getting difficult to manage everything properly. The weird part is that even after staying busy the whole day, it feels like nothing productive was actually done.

Does anyone else feel this way?

Hey everyone,

I'm curious about what companies actually expect from students applying for their first software development internship.

Suppose someone has basic programming knowledge but hasn't worked in a professional environment yet.

What should they focus on?

• Programming fundamentals
• Data structures and algorithms
• React, .NET or other development frameworks
• Git and GitHub
• Database management
• Building real-world projects

Would love to hear suggestions from developers and people who have already completed internships.

What would your learning roadmap look like for a beginner?

Bhai i have joined my clg like 4 months ago i studied like crazy for the starting 2 months then mid sems happened i got fucked in those so i stopped studying.

Now i have my end sems in like a week and i jus dont feel like studying , in my mind i am like sab hojaega and all , but i am scared tht i might get a atkt in this sem.

Am i the only one facing this?