On-campus placements scam or what?

Greetings visitors!

It will please some of you to know that I almost titled this article ‘College? placement?? Bitch!’ It will please the rest of you to know that I realized not everyone is gonna be happy reading that so, I begrudgingly decided against it

A little introduction about me:

I am currently a student in my final year of engineering pursuing a B.E in computer engineering & I like chocos :) So, that means it is my placement season (>"<). Now, that should be a good thing because most people wait eagerly for it, as everyone wants a job in their hands ASAP.But I guess god is having different plans for me (-_-).

Talking about campus placements in my college: it is pretty good TBH for a 3 tier college. A lot of companies are visiting & not just for any position, they are giving away amazing profiles & opportunities. So, why am I so sceptical about this? Well, because of this godforsaken pandemic a lot of bad happened SMH. My frustration is absolutely dependent on 1 single factor i.e; POINTER.

That LiL decimal number was so important I couldn't have ever imagined in my life(Although, I was reminded about it several times, but hey who cares about it right?). I got 10 pointers in my 5th and 6th semester, & I was unconditionally chill in my life. For, the first time in my life I felt like someone suddenly lit up a tiny light bulb 💡 in my endless void of failures. Then one day my buddies & I were just swooning over our pointers when one of us had a terrible realisation that besides us most of our batchmates also scored 10 pointers. Finally, after a series of sorrowful realisations, we finally came to a conclusion that we got played while Jesus was vibing in his own zone🥲.

Let me break it down for those slowpokes who still have no idea of what I am talking about. This scenario is for students who all are going to graduate in the year 2022. Till now we are done with a total of six semesters, of which we had given the first 3 semesters in offline mode while 4th sem is kind of hybrid and the rest i.e; 5th and 6th in online mode. So if you notice your 4th-semester result is largely based on your 3rd-semester results(At least in Mumbai University). While for most of the people there 5th and 6th-semester results are greater than 9.5.

Now, when a company comes for placements, they are going to set eligibility criteria based on pointer distribution among students most of the time, & guess what will happen next. BAM! the final pointer is essentially completely based on our sem-1,2,3 results, which sucks.

As a result, I was ineligible for most of the dream companies that were coming for campus placements, only because of my incompetence in early semesters. So, in my POV I consider this whole process as one big scam but then again I really can't be a crybaby about it. This post's main purpose was to take out all that pent up frustration inside me & hopefully it works(fingers crossed). I think companies shouldn't just blindly cut people off, just based on their Academics(pointers), I mean it literally, what are the aptitude tests for then?