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Companies Visiting Tier-1 vs Tier-3 Colleges 🎓
Placement season in India is basically two different Netflix shows depending on your college tier.
Tier-1 Colleges
Day 0:
Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Adobe, Uber, Atlassian, Goldman Sachs enter campus like it’s a royal wedding procession.
Students:
> “I’m confused… should I take ₹45 LPA or wait for ₹60 LPA?”
Companies:
> “We only need the top 200 students.”
College:
> “We have 1,800 of them.”
Coding rounds feel like competitive programming finals.
HR round feels like a podcast conversation about “impact”.
Offer letters come with relocation bonus, joining bonus, stock bonus, happiness bonus, breathing bonus.
Rejection reason:
> “You were very strong, but someone solved the graph problem in O(1).”
But in Tier-3 Colleges -
Day 0:
“Random IT Services infotech Pvt Ltd” arrives with a logo designed in MS Paint.
CTC: ₹4.5 LPA
In-hand: ₹18,200/month
Bond: 2 years
Penalty: ₹2 lakh
Students:
> “Is it WFH?”
Company:
> “Yes — Work From Hub in another state.”
Coding round:
Reverse a string, print star pattern, explain why you love the company you heard about 7 minutes ago.
HR round:
> “Are you comfortable with night shifts, rotational shifts, weekend shifts, festival shifts and life shifts?”
Role offered:
Software Engineer
Actual work:
Update Excel sheets + call clients + sometimes restart the router.
Meanwhile Parents-
Tier-1 parent:
> “Beta don’t focus on money, focus on learning.”
Tier-3 parent:
> “Beta take anything, learning later.”
After 6 months-
Tier-1 graduate: debating startup vs higher studies vs US relocation
Tier-3 graduate: debating developer vs support vs UPSC vs YouTube vs farming
Same syllabus.
Same university exams.
Same 75% attendance torture.
Different universe.
India doesn’t have one placement system.
It has parallel economies running on the same degree.
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