IIT tag became a burden: Graduate recalls painful job interview after UPSC attempt
“Arre, you are from IIT and still here?” This is what an interviewer told an IIT graduate during a 2019 interview for an entry-level data analyst role that paid 40,000 per month. The remark hit him hard. “I felt like a loser. My confidence was shattered,” he recalled in a LinkedIn post. The incident took…