Techie reveals how he managed to land Rs 35 LPA job after 1.5 years of job hunt and 500+ rejections: ‘I know how…’

It is very difficult to be hunting for jobs, keep getting rejected for than a year, and hoping you would eventually land your dream job. However, the persistence paid off for one techie. Speaking to the subreddit Developers India, a tech professional explained how he made this seemingly miraculous event come true. He said he has three years of experience and is currently working as a software engineer with a salary of Rs 22 LPA. While the pay was good, the work was mundane, and he did not see any growth, so he decided to switch. In the next 1.5 years, he applied to 500+ jobs and kept getting rejected

With long nites spent practicing LeetCode problems and getting ready for system design interviews till two or three in the morning, the candidate acknowledged that the job search occasionally became frustrating. Even though I went to several interviews and made it through several rounds, the process was extremely taxing due to the constant rejections, especially after months of diligent work yielded no results.

But this month, the candidate received two offers from mid-sized product-based businesses, proving that the effort had finally paid off. For senior software engineer vacancies, both companies offered packages of about Rs 35 lakh annually.


He explained that though the process of job hunting can be pretty demotivating, it can still work out if one has patience and perseveres despite being rejected constantly.

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Although some were sceptical on how he managed to make such a big jump the techie said that he was leading a squad in his current company. “Apart from that my system design was pretty decent so that helped a lot clearing these rounds. But yeah these are not FAANG companies from which I got an offer, FAANG would most definitely not give me SSE, these are mid-sized PBCs so they are usually a bit more relaxed..’ he said.