SDE - Intern

I have completed my engineering in 2016 in Information Technology and pursued a Master's degree called MSIT(Google it if you are not aware of it. It is a different degree from a usual M.tech degree) from IIIT-H. Later in 2018, I cracked an internship at NVIDIA in Pune as a part of my campus placements. After working for 6 months as an intern at NVIDIA, I could not get a PPO for internal reasons. Later in 2018, I was jobless. I did not know what to do. So I searched for jobs online. But unfortunately, all the companies were seeking at least 3 to 5 years of experience which I clearly did not have. So, in search of jobs, I wasted an year without up-skilling myself. Then my father advised me to prepare for banks. So I took his advice and started to go for bank coaching in July 2019. I cleared IBPS Prelims in Sept 2019 but I failed in the Mains exam in Jan 2020. I was shattered and did not have any idea what to do. It was already Jan 2020. 2 years just flew by and I still did not have any job. In Feb 2020, I visited IISc Bangalore on International Science Day on Feb 29th. I clearly remember this day not just because it was a leap day but the experience was memorable and that is when I decided to prepare for GATE 2021 seriously and wanted to do another Master's degree from a reputed institute. I took GATE coaching video lectures from Ravindrababu Ravula who has helped me a lot in my journey of GATE. I cracked GATE-2021 with an All India Rank of 965 and joined IIIT-Bangalore (after a 3 year gap in my career) as an M.Tech student. Journey at IIIT-B is for some other day but in short, it was inspiring and memorable. IIIT-B helped me in cracking a job (internship) at IBM and I am lucky to get this job during our campus placements.

It was a campus placement that I have cracked. So there was nothing much to do for the application. We had to apply for the companies that we were interested in.

Learn about the role first. Do your research and prepare for the role accordingly. If possible, checkout the profiles of the interviewers on LinkedIn beforehand if you know who the interviewers are if its scheduled online. Brush up all your basics once and be perfect on your resume. DO NOT LIE ON YOUR RESUME. They will surely know it if you lie and your interview is over even before you know it. Master the frequently asked questions on the skills you have mentioned in your resume. For ex: If you have written that you worked on AngularJS, then learn about the differences between AngularJS and ReactJS, How AngularJS works and Why did you prefer Angular or ReactJS. Be prepared for such questions. I have made a list of such questions and my friends at IIIT-B helped me a lot in preparing for this interview. Have good coding and technical discussions with your friends. I felt this is the easiest way of retaining what you have learnt and your friends can provide much more knowledge about a framework or any other technical topic which will definitely help you during your interview.