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Ever had questions in mind like - How important are projects, projects vs problem solving ? What resources to go through ? Does cgpa matter ? How important is competitive coding? What questions to do, how to do? If yes, then this video is for you.
Nishant Mittal - a Frontend Developer from OLX and Ameerul Shah - an incoming SRE Intern from Nutanix clear all the misconceptions that students have in their minds related to Campus Placements while they share their own experiences.
Do drop in your valuable suggestions or any other doubts or any ideas that you might have for the next set of videos.

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Nishant Mittal: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nishantmittal1997/
Ameerul Shah: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ameerulshah/

Top 10 Myths with timelines :

(00:49) Myth#1: I have my placement season approaching in 2-3 months.Since I have wasted 3 years of my college life I will not be able to get placed in a good company.

(01:41) Myth#2: I haven’t given much emphasis on projects so I am at a huge disadvantage.

(03:09) Myth#3: During my college life I haven’t been involved in a lot of extracurricular activities and haven’t participated in a lot of clubs&chapters.Will this make my resume look weak?

(04:16) Myth#4: I have done only 200 questions while my friend has done 500 questions so he has a better chance of getting placed than me.

(05:22) Myth#5 : My friends are preparing from multiple sites such as gfg,leetcode,hackerrank,codeforces,etc. But I haven’t gone through so many sites so I may be lagging behind.

(07:18) Myth#6: I have done my internship from a lesser known company and not from a popular company.So I maybe rejected from some companies

(07:49) Myth#7: I haven’t done competitive coding so I will be at a disadvantage during campus placements.

(09:16) Myth#8: My friend knows multiple programming languages and I know only one language. So I maybe at a disadvantage during placements.

(11:17) Myth#9: I don’t have a very high CGPA so I have no chances of getting placed in a good company.

(13:24) Myth#10: I’m not from CSE or IT so I won’t be getting any opportunities at all.