r/IndianDevelopers

On Sept 8th, 2025, I got placed at Oracle Financial Services Software (OFSS) for an Application Developer role through campus placements.

They had shared everything — offer letter, joining date, all formalities were done. Based on that, my college didn’t allow me to sit for other companies.

After waiting for 7 months, just 1 week ago, I received an email saying my offer has been revoked due to “changes in business requirements and organizational priorities.”

Now it’s April, and most companies have already finished hiring. Very few are visiting campus, so I’m mostly dependent on off-campus opportunities.

I’ve been consistently applying, reaching out to HRs, asking for referrals, cold messaging—but most replies are that hiring is already done or there are no openings.

It’s really frustrating to be in this position after relying on something for so long, only for it to be taken away so suddenly.

If anyone has been through something similar, I’d really appreciate any advice on how to navigate this phase.

Also, if your company is hiring for SDE or AI roles or you’re open to referring, please DM me. I’d genuinely appreciate any help

fresh out of college in 2018. joined a bangalore startup as an intern for ₹10,000/month.

had a ₹25k offer from a service company. turned it down. everyone thought i was being stupid.

my logic was simple which is I wanted to write real code from day one. not spend 6 months in training.

here's how it actually went:

2018 - ₹10,000/mo (intern, bangalore startup) shared a 2bhk with 3 roommates in koramangala. survived on maggi. learned react and node by debugging production crashes at 2am.

2019 - ₹25,000/mo first full-time role at the same startup. started building features end to end.

2020 - ₹35,000/mo full stack. started making actual architectural decisions.

2021 - ₹45,000/mo → then jumped to ₹80,000/mo this is where things changed. i spent 4-5 months learning blockchain at night while still employed. cryptozombies, patrick collins' youtube bootcamp, two side projects on github. applied to 15 companies, got offers from 2. nearly doubled my salary overnight.

2022 - ₹3,50,000/mo french blockchain startup found me on linkedin. three interview rounds. offered ₹3.5L/month — 4x my previous salary. took it.

worked remotely for 1.5 years. used that time to quietly build my own company on the side.

2024 - left the ₹3.5L salary went full time on teckas technologies. we're now 9 people, clients in india, europe and the us, 6 months of consecutive revenue growth.

a few things i'd do differently:

• specialized 6 months too late. was comfortable when i should have been uncomfortable
• didn't build in public at all. wish i had started documenting from year 1
• underestimated how much financial stuff matters — taxes, contracts, invoicing. learned the hard way

the one decision that mattered most: taking the ₹10k internship over the ₹25k service company job. everything else was downstream of that. happy to answer questions.

wrote the full breakdown here if anyone wants it: developerstory.xyz/stories/from-10k-intern-to-tech-entrepreneur