Placement season
Every big drive, honestly.
The coaching centres sell the exam as the destination and the influencers call it beneath you. Both are wrong. Here is what each drive really pays, what it actually tests, and what to do with the job once you have it.
Start here · most students
TCS NQT
Ninja, Digital and Prime decoded, the real exam pattern, and the 12-month ladder that turns the service job into a launchpad.
Read the guideFour doors, four very different salaries
Infosys
Infosys does not run one hiring exam, it runs a ladder of them, and which door you enter through decides your pay for years. Most students only ever hear about the bottom rung.
Read the guideThe one with an essay in it
Wipro
Wipro runs its national hiring under the Elite NLTH banner, and it is the one mass drive where written English is a scored round rather than an afterthought.
Read the guideThe one that scores how you speak
Accenture
Accenture hires in large off-campus waves, and its process is unusual in one respect: a dedicated communication assessment sits alongside the technical rounds.
Read the guideOne prep, many drives. The aptitude section is near-identical across all of these, so preparing for one prepares you for the rest. What differs is the fourth round: pseudocode at Infosys, a written essay at Wipro, a spoken assessment at Accenture. Check whether your branch counts.
The honest guides
Not your situation? One of these is.
Placement-season student
The TCS NQT, honestly
Real tiers, real money, and the ladder after the offer letter.
Read itCSE, ECE, Mech, Civil, BSc
Does my branch count?
What your syllabus transfers, what it does not, and the gap in months.
Read itGrad facing a collapsed entry market
No internship? Ship this instead
An internship is four claims. A shipped capstone makes every one.
Read itFresher who just joined
Your first 90 days
The fears said out loud, and the exact sentences that work.
Read it5–12 yrs at a service company
What your 8 years count for
What transfers, what died with the framework, and the bridge out.
Read itCareer switcher, no code
Tech without code
The doors that do not need programming, with salaries and the catch.
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