‘Can’t even get 3.5 LPA’: Redditor who applied for over 100 jobs highlights harsh truth of India’s job market

The post also pushed back against the idea that India’s youth simply need to work harder. “At last, most of the time you can’t earn money to fulfil your own basic needs,” the user lamented, adding that young Indians were promised growth and security but face underemployment and stagnating salaries instead.

They ended on a bleak note: “According to some elites, we are the generation that didn’t live through any major economic recession or depression since our teen years but our whole life is depressing and since our working years 2020 the recession is new reality.”

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Responses poured in from others sharing similar frustrations. One top comment read, “Yes you are right. Corporate Sector in India sucks. There is no Job and jobs which are there are offering 20,000 per month. It is very bad state of affairs in this country.” Another user said, “Depend on college and skills too. Majority of college are pure scams, providing no real value.”

Even those with advanced degrees say they’re not spared. “Nothing for Masters too,” an economics postgraduate from a Tier-1 college commented. Yet amid the frustration, a few tried to be optimistic: “You will get it don’t worry,” wrote one person, explaining they’d landed a job despite “zero experience and a two-year gap.”