Recruitment is a joke

I always wanted to start up. But when I joined college, I was introduced to a new, hostile concept where a menial job, paying quarter a million rupees per year was everything to a student.

Placements, they called it. It is a ceremonial conduction where different outsourcing companies visit our college to recruit students on the basis of strange parameters. The funny thing about these ceremonies were, they recruited labourers with a fancy degree, not engineers.

Here’s how.

I know two seniors from my college who were recruited by this company X. One of them is a computer science engineering graduate. The other one is a mechanical engineering graduate. Both of them studied different syllabus their entire college life.

While one was busy coding, the other was learning about fuel injection systems. But guess what, they both landed in same company, with the same designation. System engineer.

I don’t know who wasted their three senior years to this bullshit. Was it the mechanic engineer who ended up a job in IT sector? Or was it the computer engineer whose entire college education about computers was equivalent to that of a mechanics graduate?

That’s the beauty of the system.