BITS Pilani over IITs post JEE? Placements, culture and life @ & after BITS Pilani. Meet Disha

In this video we ask Disha Singla about her experience @ BITS Pilani as an undergraduate student @BITS PIlani. She chose BITS over IITs and we will try to know in what aspects this decision would make sense. Disha currently works at a famous cloud based firm, Rubrik as a backend developer. And has been a talented student throughout. She also is a theater artist and lived her life at fullest in BITS Pilani.
We will get to know why BITS is different than other colleges and how your life will be when you are at BITS as a student and even after.
Join in to know more about Placements, education, faculty, culture at BITS in this live session.
Friday 10th May 2024. @ 4pm

Session flow:
0:00 Introduction
3:11 Choice alongside BITS after 12th
6:44 Heuristics while choosing the college
9:49 Random Bakwas
12:07 MSc degree from BITS
18:04 zero attendance policy of BITS
25:05 Random theater play Promotion
26:20 Extracurricular in BITS Pilani
33:43 Extracurricular vs CGPA tradeoff
37:56 BITS Pilani vs Other BITS campuses
44:01 How to go for Internships from BITS
54:15 Learnings from Internships
57:58 Why tech markets are bad right now
1:00:33 Placements from BITS
1:09:57 Reality of Inflated CTCs
1:12:40 Disha's Interview experiences
1:24:45 CTC ranges
1:28:30 Product vs service companies
1:30:41 How companies treat career gap
1:32:44 In demand software skills
1:38:53 Is AI a threat do Developers?
1:42:40 Offline application process
1:45:00 Closing Thoughts by Disha