Letting my experiences speak for itself: - Worked as a freelance at Upwork - Worked as an intern in a fast-growing startup called Grofers (now BlinkIt) - Won a couple of software development competitions on Topcoder (that gave me good enough $$ to fund my Goa trips and mobile phone during the college days :P) - Had a short term internship experience with BNY Mellon's fintech division - Served as a mentor with Newton School to help prepare students/professions break into the software world and get job offers - Cracked interviews for 10+ companies and also got rejected by 10+ companies so have an experience with both to talk about :) - Converted all of my internships to PPO (pre-placement offers) - Started as an SDE-1 and currently working as an SDE-2 at Amazon - Made it to Seattle, USA from a tier-3 city in India All this while studying in a tier-3 college. So hit me up if you want to talk about anything. Note: If a candidate cannot afford it, I would be more than happy to take the sessions for free. Just reach out to me on LinkedIn. The only reason to not keep it for free is to make sure only the serious candidates sign up for the sessions to value both of our time.