Avinash Pandit

Yeah, I think what happens is many of these students who actually get into IIT, they've prepared so hard for it that IIT seems to be the final destination for them.

I completely agree.

In engineering?

Yeah.

I did my engineering in electronics and telecommunication.

But this was early 2000s, right?

So IT service companies were growing at that point of time and used to hire in droves.

Yeah, so Wipro, Infosys, PCS, HCL Tech, Cognizant.

Satyam was also there at that point of time.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

But yeah, I started my journey with Infosys after my engineering.

And I was there for about three years or so.

I actually topped the batch, the training batch in Infosys.

I think Infosys, what it really gave me was a passion for coding.

And NetNet ensuring that I never get scared of code after that.

I had never coded before.

They trained me for six months.

But probably it was the best groundwork for what came ahead.

But yeah.

I think the service companies then and even now, for that matter, are based on cost arbitrage.