I see this requirement on quite a lot of job postings - "Canditate should have an engineering/management degree from a Tier 1 institute" I am genuinely curious, is there a significant difference between candidates from Tier 1 institutes and Tier 2/3 institutes?

I don't understand these type of statements too. I mean what are you trying to project by differentiating between a Tier 1 and Tier 2/3 candidates? I even got rejected once just because I was not from a Tier 1 institute. The recruiter first asked, "from which college you are?" followed that up with, "is this a Tier 1 institute?", to which I said NO. Then she said, "Okay, let me get back to you." (in short, we are not interested in your profile).

As a fresher, I was once told by a HR that, we give 14-15L to students with Tier 1 colleges. for others we don’t go over 7-8L. First thing from my mouth was, then let’s not schedule the next interview. It will be a waste of time for both of us. Just don’t apply. Even if you are good enough and clear all interviews, they’ll lowball you.

Basically they are applying a kind of filter. Tier 1 institutes are filled with hardworking people.

@dazzling-autumn-14365 This is true. I know this from my personal experience. In my first org, for the profile of ML Developer, my package was ~7 lakhs/annum, while another member of our department from a Tier 1 institute (I think it was IIT Kanpur or Kharagpur) had a package of ~11-12 lakhs/annum.

My opinion. This is discrimination and should be illegal. Period.

I had a similar experience. I joined Oracle as a fresher for 7.5LPA after an year, 3 new freshers joined my team from some IIT but from a Mechanical background and manager assigned me to train a guy from them. After a couple of months I got to know I was training a guy who has 23LPA + Some stock options 😂😅 and it blew my mind, I even discussed this with my manager and his reply was that is the market standard 😉 . This was one of the main motivating factor for me to leave Indian market and get into remote roles.