Junior Software Engineer

What recruiters actually look for

Fresher SDE screens in India still mix DSA with “what did you build?” — ownership usually decides the borderline cases. One deployed project with users, data, or a real constraint beats five unfinished tutorials. Wasted effort: certificate farms and cloned Netflix clones you can’t defend in depth. Bring a GitHub with recent readable commits and a story about a bug you diagnosed. Mass placement prep helps volume drives; a ship story helps product and startup rounds.