Backstory of Software {LOL} Engineer
I am also one of the typical software engineers that you see churning out of engineering colleges in India. I am also one of them, very average yet not complaining about it. We are fine. Took a gap of three years after higher secondary, and then did computer science in some private engineering college. No, I didn't get a job in the campus, I was not even eligible for any company in the campus- they wanted first division throughout, and I have a second division in higher secondary. Anyway, going forward, went to Hyderabad after the bachelor and after 6 months, I got a job. Those six months were one of the worst periods of life, I was tired of running after every interview. Imagine, traveling in the general coaches of Indian Railway for full one-two journeys just for one single interview in another state thousand miles away. This was mostly very frustrating because I used to clear all rounds of technical rounds and then get rejected in the HR round. The second division came back haun...