Before the placement season began in my final year of B.Tech, my friends and I were confident. We genuinely believed cracking an 8–9 LPA job would be easy. We had prepared, we had skills, and we had dreams.

Then July arrived—and reality hit hard.

The placement process started with written tests, coding rounds, and interviews. One rejection didn’t bother me much. I thought, next one will work out. It didn’t. Rejections kept coming—through multiple exams and interview processes like TCS NQT, TCS CodeVita, Infosys InfyTQ, Capgemini,Zscaler and others. It wasn’t just me; almost my entire friend circle was struggling. Occasionally, one or two familiar faces would get placed, and while we were happy for them, it made our silence louder.

By the seventh rejection, something inside us changed.

We finally understood that placements weren’t easy—not at all. Confidence slowly turned into self-doubt. We started sitting quietly in our college ground, talking about how even a 1–2 LPA job would be enough now. The dreams had shrunk, not because we weren’t capable, but because failure has a way of doing that.

The hardest part wasn’t the rejection emails.

It was our parents’ phone calls.

We started ignoring them—not out of disrespect, but out of fear. Fear of the question we didn’t have an answer to: “Placement ka kya hua?”

Then, when we had almost stopped expecting anything, good news arrived.

In mid-September, the HackWithInfy interview results were announced—and I was selected. In that moment, months of self-doubt disappeared. The relief was overwhelming. The happiness was real. But more than celebration, there was realization.

That phase taught me one of the most important lessons of my life:

Give your best. Prepare honestly. Don’t chase results—chase growth.

Because results come and go, but the strength you build during failure stays with you forever.

That placement season didn’t just give me a job.
It gave me resilience, humility, and belief in myself.