๐๐๐ค๐ฅ๐ก๐ ๐จ๐๐ฎ, โ๐๐ค๐ชโ๐ง๐ ๐ก๐ช๐๐ ๐ฎ. ๐๐ค๐ช ๐๐ค๐ฉ ๐จ๐๐ค๐ง๐ฉ๐ก๐๐จ๐ฉ๐๐ ๐๐ค๐ง ๐๐ค๐ค๐๐ก๐.โ
๐ช๐ต๐ฎ๐ ๐๐ต๐ฒ๐ ๐ฑ๐ผ๐ปโ๐ ๐๐ฒ๐ฒ ๐ถ๐ ๐๐ต๐ฒ 3 ๐๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐๐ต๐ฎ๐ ๐๐ฒ๐ป๐๐ฒ๐ป๐ฐ๐ฒ ๐ฒ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐ฒ๐
๐ถ๐๐๐ฒ๐ฑ.
They donโt see the 60 applications to Adobe, 50 to Microsoft, 80 across companies like Morgan Stanley, Walmart, Goldman Sachs, Salesforce, Atlassianโbasically every big tech name you can think of.
They donโt see the 500 applications sent directly through career pages, often with referrals from complete strangers on LinkedIn.
They donโt see the 1000 applications on Naukri, Instahyre, LinkedIn Jobs, Indeed.
What they definitely donโt see is the time.
Applications filled from a phone, from a laptop, between classes, late at night, early mornings.
Resume rewritten endlessly.
Cover letters tweaked again and again.
Rejections ignored. Ghosting normalized.
๐๐ช๐ฉ ๐ค๐ 4000 ๐๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ก๐๐๐๐ฉ๐๐ค๐ฃ๐จ, ๐ ๐๐ค๐ฉ ๐๐ฃ๐ฉ๐๐ง๐ซ๐๐๐ฌ ๐๐๐ก๐ก๐จ ๐๐ง๐ค๐ข 5 ๐๐ค๐ข๐ฅ๐๐ฃ๐๐๐จ:
โข LimeRoad
โข ION Digital
โข concentricAI
โข Amazon
โข Google
๐ง๐ต๐ฎ๐โ๐ ๐ฎ ๐๐๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฒ๐๐ ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐๐ฒ ๐ผ๐ณ ๐น๐ฒ๐๐ ๐๐ต๐ฎ๐ป 0.2%.
And then something interesting happened.
I cleared 4 out of those 5.
The one rejection? A Java-specific role. I had never coded seriously in Java. Still, I tried. I cleared the DSA rounds. I failed at the Java depth. No excusesโjust facts.
๐ง๐ต๐ถ๐ ๐ถ๐๐ปโ๐ ๐ฎ ๐ฏ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐ด.
๐๐๐๐จ ๐๐จ ๐ฉ๐๐ ๐ช๐ฃ๐๐ค๐ข๐๐ค๐ง๐ฉ๐๐๐ก๐ ๐ฉ๐ง๐ช๐ฉ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ฃ๐ โ๐ค๐ซ๐๐ง๐ฃ๐๐๐๐ฉ ๐จ๐ช๐๐๐๐จ๐จ.โ
When you apply only through LinkedIn Jobs and donโt get shortlisted, itโs not because youโre badโitโs because 99% of the world is clicking the same button. What changes the game is obsession.
Not motivation.
Not luck.
Obsession.
The kind where you stop counting hours.
Where rejection becomes background noise.
Where the goal is so loud that everything else fades into the sidelines.
๐ฝ๐๐๐ค๐ข๐ ๐จ๐ค ๐ค๐๐จ๐๐จ๐จ๐๐ ๐ฌ๐๐ฉ๐ ๐ฎ๐ค๐ช๐ง ๐๐ค๐๐ก ๐ฉ๐๐๐ฉ ๐ฆ๐ช๐๐ฉ๐ฉ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐๐ค๐๐จ๐ฃโ๐ฉ ๐๐ซ๐๐ฃ ๐๐๐๐ก ๐ก๐๐ ๐ ๐๐ฃ ๐ค๐ฅ๐ฉ๐๐ค๐ฃโ๐ค๐ฃ๐ก๐ฎ ๐๐๐ก๐๐ฎ ๐๐ค๐๐จ.