60% in Class 12 to Cracking Google & Amazon | Story of a Software Engineer from a Tier-3 College

I barely managed 60% marks in my Board Exams. I failed JEEs twice , and got into a Tier 3 college in Kolkata (UEM Kolkata) , where we were the very first batch. Coming from state board , I couldn't understand coding , and used to feel lost , when I saw my classmates knowing 2-3 programming languages. As we were the very first batch , we had no seniors to guide us , nor there were too many online resources to help me , way back in 2015.

I got 6 pointers in my first semester , but thankfully that improved in the later semesters.
I never got any good internship opportunity , as people refused to give me referrals based on my college tag. I didn't knew where my life was heading towards.

In 2018 , in my final year of college , I got rejected by TCS , and in 2019 , I started working for a service based company , due to lack of good placement opportunities. I remember during placements, our college was not even eligible for Hack with Infy , a coding competition run by Infosys.

From there , I managed to work for Amazon , Salesforce and currently Google , and have cracked many other multiple offers from top tech companies , in the process. Sharing my journey in this video , not to flex , but to motivate , inspire people , and also to spread awareness based on my experiences and learnings.

0:00 - Motivation to share my Journey
1:37 - School , JEEs and my background on Computer
3:02 - Getting into a Tier3 College
4:13 - Problems I faced when I started with Programming
5:44 - 1st Semester Results & My Interest towards Programming
7:53 - How did I learn Programming and got better at it?
8:57 - What all did I do in College till Placements?
12:05 - My Brief Stint with Competitive Programming in 6th Semester
13:42 - My First Job Offer & First Rejection
16:26 - Offers that I had during my Placement
16:55 - My first Big Interview Opportunity , and my interest towards Product Based Companies
18:50 - My Experience in my First Company , EPAM Systems.
20:18 - My Preparation , and practicing DSA with office.
20:56 - Covid and Hiring Freeze
21:50 - My Interview with Amazon & Offer
22:54 - Leaving Amazon
23:50 - Switching during Layoffs and Tech Recession in 2022
25:00 - Getting into Salesforce as a Software Developer
25:22 - Google Interview & Hiring Freeze
26:50 - Getting into Google as a Software Engineer
27:20 - My Learnings & Final Words , specially for people from Tier-3 colleges.

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