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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. So there was nothing much to do for the application. We had to apply for the companies that we were interested in.

I was rejected for this role as I could not answer questions in C++. I am a Java guy and they wanted a candidate who could code well in both the languages. Yes, Mathworks has this rule which seems silly but they stick to it at any cost.