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Hi friends, 
i am a SDET with 2Y6M experience in TCS. 
My CCTC is 8.36.

I have cleared L1 & L2 rounds with Nokia for R&D Test Engineer, Bengaluru . I need your guidance on

1. What CTC shall i ask?

2. How is life for an Automation tester in Nokia.

Please give valuable guidance / Suggestions.

Thanks.

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Recently, a CEO (an IITian, no less) shared something that should’ve been a wake-up call for the Indian tech scene.......but most of us are too busy posing on LinkedIn to notice.

Out of over 1,000 applications for a 50 LPA tech role, the majority submitted absolute trash for a basic coding task. 

Yes......basic. Not a system design round
Just a simple task to test if they can code.

And the result?
Poor-quality code
No understanding of the basics

The same people call themselves “Tech leads,” “Experts,” or “SDEs” on LinkedIn, write long motivational posts, and act like they’re running the world. 

Let’s be honest:
Many in the tech world are all talk and no skill.
They’re more focused on looking smart online than actually being good at their job.

This isn’t about insulting anyone........it’s about calling out a culture where everyone techie wants a big salary, but very few want to do the hard work to deserve it.

Shame on you, techies!

The pay feels illegally low. Companies are doing zero to negligible original work. They think software engineering is something where you hire people who work 20 hours a day for 20k salary. I recently spoke to a company called bluebuck research located in dingy Kaikhali. That company had the audacity to tell me since I have been preparing for UPSC, I might not be able to answer his dumb Python questions when I have a GSOC internship and a NIT degree. Like shove your 30k jobs up your whatever. If you cannot interview, politely reject- don’t gauge candidates from gaps when people in US without having degrees are in programming jobs. 0 sense. 

Plus what is this illegally low pay to everyone and not just me? Has labour become that damn cheap? It is reprehensible.

Does Kolkata have the dumbest at IT sector in India?🙄🙄

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