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Placement season breaks everyone a little and then everyone carries it quietly. Nobody posts about the second part.

The gap between a college's brochure placement number and the actual number is the country's best-running open secret.

the dress code email said formal. i own one shirt that is close enough. i borrowed a blazer from a senior. it was a size bigger. the interview was online so the camera was chest-up. nobody saw the blazer. i got the offer. the blazer is the reason i write this.

AI developer roles up 260% year on year. agentic and orchestration roles up 180-220%. genai and agentic AI engineers up 225%. pay for advanced skills up 150-250% in a year. those are the fastest-moving numbers in indian tech and none of them are for a fresher

22 of 23 IITs saw BTech placements drop between 2021-22 and 2023-24. 15 of them double digit. IIT delhi went from about 88% to 73%. IIT dharwad 90 to 66. IIT jammu 92 to 70. this is government data presented to parliament. it is not a rumour and it is not one bad year

27 of 31 NITs reported falling average packages. NIT students placed fell from 18,957 to 16,915 in one year, about 11%. 2,000 people who graduated into tech stopped finding tech. that number is 2,000 people

ibm, accenture, oracle financial services, cognizant have all told candidates that joining dates depend on project availability. some engineering graduates are waiting months, some over a year, after signing. the offer was real. the start date is a variable

companies have stopped trusting resumes and college brands. they run their own assessments, hire through competitions, poach through referrals. the old model — one campus visit, mass hire — is shrinking. students who planned around that one visit are planning around something that no longer exists

everyone's batch group is celebrating one offer. everyone. i opened the group at 11pm, scrolled past 200 messages, and closed it. i have not opened it since. the strange part is not that i have no offer. the strange part is how fast i stopped wanting to look.