u/Ok-Rich-5007

Hello to all seniors, I am joining PES this year CSE RR campus. Hope you all got good placements. So I really have nothing to do right now and was hoping if our seniors could guide me on what tech tools and skills I should buildup for hackathons and coding. Like I know dsa's and cp and stuff are like a must for every coder, so I need C++ or C and data structures and algo but thats kinda long term stuff. Can't really master that in two months but are there any basic skills or tools we need to learn to join hackathons or build our resume. Like I hear a lot about Kafka, MongoDB, Ruby and all but really am confused on where to start. I have read the faq's from the PESU reddit post but it still seems a lot to choose from so any specific stuff that companies look for or prefer? Thank you for any help you can provide. Best of luck for further placements! :)

PES has great infra and very competitive environment, not to mention its right in middle of an IT city and has access to many companies and lots of clubs and fests; campus is also good since it has many levels underground as well. But it has huge crowd now, around 2600 I think, and only half or one-third people get decent placements. BIT MESRA has stronger reputation compared to PES and less competition since it has below five hundred students for cse and related branches and equivalent median and average compared to PES and also a huge campus. But I have heard rumors of companies blacklisting the college due to rampant cheating during OA's and several companies giving regret letter even after getting placed and to be honest maybe I am too skeptical but the data for placements of BIT MESRA seems too good how low the rank is dropping this year. PES has this student maintained excel sheet which maintains placement records (like companies, no of offers, ctc, internships) does BIT MESRA has anything like that? Can any seniors help me decide please or if they could confirm the placement records for BIT MESRA are in fact accurate? Because there is this one colleague of my parents that is from BIT MESRA 2011 batch and his placement story is very very sketchy and had to take 3.5 package at Wipro since apparently Microsoft had stopped his placement interview mid way cause of rumors of cheating amongst the whole batch of students. So please really, help.

PES has great infra and very competitive environment, not to mention its right in middle of an IT city and has access to many companies and lots of clubs and fests; campus is also good since it has many levels underground as well. But it has huge crowd now, around 2600 I think, and only half or one-third people get decent placements. BIT MESRA has stronger reputation compared to PES and less competition since it has below five hundred students for cse and related branches and equivalent median and average compared to PES and also a huge campus. But I have heard rumors of companies blacklisting the college due to rampant cheating during OA's and several companies giving regret letter even after getting placed and to be honest maybe I am too skeptical but the data for placements of BIT MESRA seems too good how low the rank is dropping this year. PES has this student maintained excel sheet which maintains placement records (like companies, no of offers, ctc, internships) does BIT MESRA has anything like that? Can any seniors help me decide please or if they could confirm the placement records for BIT MESRA are in fact accurate? Because there is this one colleague of my parents that is from BIT MESRA 2011 batch and his placement story is very very sketchy and had to take 3.5 package at Wipro since apparently Microsoft had stopped his placement interview mid way cause of rumors of cheating amongst the whole batch of students. So please really, help.