u/Fun-Palpitation4006

Hi everyone, as a fresher I’ll be joining a Software Engineer role in Bangalore. I only know the CTC right now: ~₹12.2 LPA fixed (variable extra). I don’t know the exact in-hand, so if anyone can tell me roughly how much it comes to, that’d help.

I’m from a different state, so I’ll have to travel back home regularly too, which adds to the cost (trains/flights, festivals, etc.).

Would this be comfortable for a fresher living alone? Would love to hear from people who’ve been through this. Thanks! 🙏

What the actual fuck is going on with college placements?

Apparently, our TPO is going to use a couple of internal HackerRank tests to decide which CTC slab we're put into.

Like… excuse me? Since when did two random internal tests become the deciding factor for what kind of opportunities we're allowed to pursue?

If a company has its own eligibility criteria and I meet them, why the hell should the college decide that I'm only “worthy” of a certain CTC range?

And the most frustrating part is that these aren't some nationally standardized exams where everyone gets the exact same controlled environment. They're internal tests. Things went wrong. Difficulty varied. Conditions varied. Yet somehow we're supposed to treat the result like it's an objective measurement of our entire ability.

We spend years building our CGPA, learning skills, doing projects, internships, preparing for placements — and then suddenly it's:

“You didn't perform well in these internal tests? Cool, here's the maximum salary bracket you're allowed to aim for.”

What makes this even more ridiculous is that the companies themselves are perfectly capable of deciding who is qualified for their roles.

If I meet their criteria, let them evaluate me.

Why is the TPO deciding which salary bracket I'm even allowed to compete for?

Maybe I'm missing something, but this feels absolutely backwards.

Is this normal in colleges or are we just getting fucked by placement bureaucracy?

Why the fuck can’t I connect with good people?

What have I done to be so unlikeable? Why do people seem to dislike me even when I’m genuinely nice to them, even after they’ve treated me badly?

At this point, I honestly don’t know if the problem is me or if I’ve just been meeting the wrong people.

Why the fuck can’t I connect with good people?

What have I done to be so unlikeable? Why do people seem to dislike me even when I’m genuinely nice to them, even after they’ve treated me badly?

At this point, I honestly don’t know if the problem is me or if I’ve just been meeting the wrong people.

Why the fuck can’t I connect with good people?

What have I done to be so unlikeable? Why do people seem to hate me even when I’m genuinely nice to them, even after they’ve treated me badly?

At this point, I honestly don’t know if the problem is me or if I’ve just been meeting the wrong people.

Final year CS student, 2027 passout, placement season is around the corner and I want to start tracking openings early.

Looking for:

• Subreddits
• Telegram channels
• Websites / newsletters

that regularly post SDE openings / off campus drives for freshers in India.

Drop everything you know below, would really appreciate it! 🙏

Final year CS student, 2027 passout, placement season is around the corner and I want to start tracking openings early.

Looking for:

• Subreddits
• Telegram channels
• Websites / newsletters

that regularly post SDE openings / off campus drives for freshers in India.

Drop everything you know below, would really appreciate it! 🙏

Final year CS student, 2027 passout, placement season is around the corner and I want to start tracking openings early.

Looking for:

• Subreddits
• Telegram channels
• Websites / newsletters

that regularly post SDE openings / off campus drives for freshers in India.

Drop everything you know below, would really appreciate it! 🙏

I’m 20F and I’ve grown up feeling emotionally sidelined by my mom in favor of her side of the family, especially her sister and her sister’s daughter.

Some things that have deeply hurt me over the years:

• My mom always prioritizes her relatives over me, my younger sister, and even my father. She is now heavily involved in my cousin’s arranged marriage search like she’s her own daughter.
• Those same relatives openly disrespect my father and never care about me or my sister.
• I’m excluded from everything on their side — not added to family groups, not called in video conferences, not included in photos. They only involve my cousin.
• When I couldn’t attend one of their engagement functions due to college work, my mom didn’t even call me the whole day. She only called for 2 minutes in the evening while sitting with them, barely speaking to me.
• I’ve been constantly bodyshamed by them since I was a teenager and it still continues.
• When I was 15, my cousin made a humiliating comment about my body on a video call while her mother was sitting right there. I cried and told my mom afterward, but they denied it and my mom dismissed it as “childish,” even asking me if I was going to stop talking to them my whole life over such a comment instead of defending me.
• Even now, when relatives bodyshame me openly, my mom tells me to ignore it and not react to avoid conflict.

All this has made me feel unwanted in my own family and emotionally replaced by people who don’t even respect me.

I love my mom a lot, which is why this hurts even more

I’m 20F and I’ve grown up feeling emotionally sidelined by my mom in favor of her side of the family, especially her sister and her sister’s daughter.

Some things that have deeply hurt me over the years:

• My mom always prioritizes her relatives over me, my younger sister, and even my father. She is now heavily involved in my cousin’s arranged marriage search like she’s her own daughter.
• Those same relatives openly disrespect my father and never care about me or my sister.
• I’m excluded from everything on their side — not added to family groups, not called in video conferences, not included in photos. They only involve my cousin.
• When I couldn’t attend one of their engagement functions due to college work, my mom didn’t even call me the whole day. She only called for 2 minutes in the evening while sitting with them, barely speaking to me.
• I’ve been constantly bodyshamed by them since I was a teenager and it still continues.
• When I was 15, my cousin made a humiliating comment about my body on a video call while her mother was sitting right there. I cried and told my mom afterward, but they denied it and my mom dismissed it as “childish,” even asking me if I was going to stop talking to them my whole life over such a comment instead of defending me.
• Even now, when relatives bodyshame me openly, my mom tells me to ignore it and not react to avoid conflict.

All this has made me feel unwanted in my own family and emotionally replaced by people who don’t even respect me.

I love my mom a lot, which is why this hurts even more

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myquals: 6th sem Computer Engineering student from India

Our college has made a 6-month internship compulsory in 7th sem (12 credits). The internship period is from June–December, while placements will probably start around September.

I couldn’t secure an on-campus internship in 5th sem, and honestly I’m not fully placement-ready yet either. Now I have two options:

1. Take a full-time onsite 6-month internship, which may consume most of my time during placement prep season.
2. Join a finance services company through a family contact. The company is real and established, but they’re basically allowing me to work independently on a software/web development project related to their domain and provide internship documents/certificate for it.

If I choose option 2, my plan is to:

• build an actual finance-domain web/software project myself
• maintain documentation/GitHub/progress reports
• prepare properly for viva/presentations
• use the remaining time seriously for DSA and placements

The company isn’t a software company originally, but they do have web portals/client systems and are okay with giving me a Software Development Intern/Web Development Intern role.

Would this still count as a legitimate/self-driven internship experience, or is this ethically questionable? Also, from a career perspective, which option sounds smarter considering placements begin during the internship period itself?