In 2016 while explaining the company’s interview process, the recruiter of a reputed Software company asked me about my current CTC (salary package). This got me perplexed because my current salary was far less compared to the market rate. Anyhow, I gave away my current salary information and the technical interviews followed which I cleared over the next few weeks.

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In this post I won’t be talking about the misgivings of social media in the young generation, or, the under-representation of women in computer technology, or how straight-out-of-college engineer kids are forced to slog for hours for peanuts as salary. Rather, I want to talk about the importance of computer awareness and the effects of community on people who want to learn computer programming.

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It was one of the memorable moments of my career, I had just received the best engineer for the year award from the program director. I was jubilant and why shouldn’t I be, there were reasons for it. My client in the US had sent word of appreciation for my months of hard work done for their eCommerce ERP systems in Texas.

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