I graduated from IIT(ISM) Dhanbad in 2015. Coming from Environmental Engineering background, I did not have much options in on-campus jobs. In case you are wondering, placements in IITs are also limited and the packages are not even close to your expectations. For me, it was especially frustating as there were only a handful of companies recruiting from my branch.
I did not want to go for core field jobs and hence ended up at Capgemini. However, I soon got into a creative design startup but things did not work well there as well and I moved to a Germany based app marketing agency that later changed the course of my career. In 2016, I also got calls from some IIMs (including IIM Lucknow, IIM Indore, IIM Kozhikode) but coud not join due to health reasons. Honestly, I did not want to join one, as I believed it would make my career very predictable even though I slogged all these years to get a call from a reputed B-school.
Within the next 2 years I found myself starting up my own company, Adferns Media. Things were pretty difficult and required a lot more of efforts, sacrifices, all my savings but so far it had all been worth it. We are now a team of 8 people and we are working with some of the most reputed brands across the world. We even represented ourselves across 6 international events globally (Seoul, Barcelona, Shanghai, New York, Cologne, Singapore) - all within just 1 year of operations and without any external funding.
So to answer your question - Life is what you make out of it whether or not you graduate from IITs.
-Vidisha Suman
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