Hello Juniors,

I am a Y22 student, and I was like one of you till last year. As I have passed out, I don't have much hate towards our college as much as I had in past.

I know it's really going hard for you people as college is in a really bad state. I fully understand your frustration and I know what situation Y23 is going through related to placements.

In India, we do BTech to get a job for a good future. But due to bad economy and advancements in AI, number of software engineering jobs has reduced a lot in our country. This is just a reality I won't hide it, it's upon us to accept it or ignore this.

Due to this, our college is also struggling in getting Y23 placed. Many companies like Whatfix, Addverb, E2E, Innovacer, etc. hasn't came in college, like Deloitte only gave PPO to some of the students only. This is really disheartening to see companies which was coming to college for last 3-4 years has not came this year. But if you don't know the reality, these companies has just stopped hiring altogether and may not even hire next year. Some of them are also having layoffs also.

I mostly see these effects due to AI advancements, like companies thinking they just don't want much human overhead and now few engineers can deliver bigger projects in very less time. But from an employee angle, expectations has risen a lot and people are working overtime and burnt-out due to so much pressure/stress, due to fast development, things are not properly tested and features are not properly well though (not engineered well). But currently companies thinking more short-term and for quick money. There will be a mountain of slop which will become tech debt and need fixes. I have used most powerful modes like Astra, Fable, Opus 5.5 etc. these models are great but they still need human in the loop to guide them. These models still fails in many of the simple tasks and this limitation will remain.

Currently AI Labs like OpenAI and Anthropic are highly subsidizing their subscriptions like you are getting $1100+ of API usage in a $20 Claude Plan (source: https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/anthropic-subscriptions-offer-5x). These companies are just charging the electricity costs to run datacenters to serve you these big LLMs which is unsustainable, in future when people will get so dumb that they can't do anything themselves without these AI Agents, we will see AI Costs of companies shoot-up.

But until these companies realize this they won't hire much due to fear of laying-off employees in future. They think hiring as a bad decision for future, if these AI models become perfect in future, people will be burden on companies.

I really don't have any advice for my juniors, even I don't know what to do currently. I know Y24 will also struggle in placements. But this doesn't break us, we should try to be optimistic, maybe things will become better and I can surely say jobs will increase not to the level of earlier times but will surely be better than what we have now. Until then try your best, become good at what you can do, become good at DSA, study core CS subjects, learn how System Design work, how to work with AI, you can learn a lot quicker and easily now.

Based on my experience companies don't know about value/quality of LNMIIT students. In my experience our students performs way better than other colleges students. Our students are more focused, intelligent, hard-working and dependable. Our students really outperforms others.

Also, college has taken placements seriously as they are facing reduction in admissions. They have hired a person in Bengaluru to reach-out to startups and MNCs there to get new companies to our campus, they are also thinking of allowing students for 1 year SLI. They are also trying to push current TPO to make more efforts to get students placed. But we still have many issues like:

1. We don't have a separate Placement Cell Building.
2. TPO is incompetent but they don't have any better option.
3. Gap between students efforts and what companies wants, as bar for cracking job is getting higher, students are not able to cope-up.

I want to tell you just one thing, try to learn important subjects during semester itself else it will become backlog durning placement season. Attend good professors classes, if you are able to learn in class itself, you will get more time to prepare for placements with maintaining good CGPA. Many of the CS subjects are really important in your job/interviews like DBMS, CN, OS, OOPs, ML. I saw someone complaining about lab like ISL is that they can't learn so many things in 10 labs and I understand as it's too fast for a 1st year student, but this is just what IT industry is now (unfortunately), like be fortunate these things are taught to you, many of my work I have to do in job is to use linux, bash terminal, Python, etc. and these things are atleast introduced to you. Try to learn these things yourself outside of your labs, these are just basics for a SWE.

Lastly, don't hate Amit Neogi Sir regarding his mail, he is also sharing his perspective. But it's Y26 students personal choice to stay in college or not.

All the best for your future.

Extra

A small fact, giant companies like Google and Meta are also struggling to make a good LLMs. Gemini is failing, even Gemini 4 Argon will be bad when compared to models like Opus 5.5 or GPT-6.1 Sol or even open-source model like GLM 5.3 in real-world tasks or usefulness.

Current AI models are working with human-made hardened software like programming languages, linux, firmware, kubernetes etc. They can't replicate these softwares themselves. We need human intuitions, system-level understandings and planning.

Start sharing your work on public platform, write blogs, make tutorials or open-source project which are useful and unique. And start reading research papers coming out of chinese AI labs, they are frontier on open research, you don't know when you will gain interest in making AI and who know you also become a research scientist in an AI labs.

Please ignore my improper english

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This is the only firm which has revoked FTE and intern offer for 4-5 different years

2021-FTE revoked

2022 - Layoff of 2 VPs and 3 SDE1/2

2024 - Internship offer revoked

2025-SDE1 revoked

2026-3 Interns fired in 1 week + 4 FTE offers revoked

Please humble request to stay away from Archana Ghei / Anuja Arekar - Scam HR ladies from this firm

The so called founder / VP - Rahul Subramanian & Arleif Braganza (they both use cheap tactics and tricks && completely beggar mindset)

Please see the proofs & humble request if u want to save your career stay away from their internship /FTE

I have attached screenshots of people getting fired in 2 months and joining random startups (ofc life gets fucked up if work with these beggars Archana /Arleif & Anuja), proofs of getting revoked

If these is still not enough - Search on google /linkedin -- " Trilogy Innovations revoke "

And just a note they claim high CTC although they pay at a delay of 4-5months. My internship stipend was credited 6 months after internship

They have been banned from many colleges for their hiring!