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A tech professional has gone viral online after sharing how he went from earning Rs 7.4 lakh a year at a service-based firm to landing a massive Rs 60 lakh package at a FAANG company. In a candid Reddit post, he detailed the setbacks, self-doubt and slow but steady progress that shaped his journey.
Opening up about his early struggles, he wrote, “I scored 17 out of 360 in JEE Mains and 73 per cent in 12th. I used to shine in studies and sports… and then suddenly I did not.” He said he ended up in a tier-3 college with low confidence and “no real personality,” but gained supportive friends who helped him through some difficult years. Then the pandemic hit, pushing him into isolation, a period that, he says, quietly forced him to work on himself.
He eventually secured a campus placement worth Rs 7.4 lakh per annum at a service-based company and kept improving until he moved to a startup, raising his salary to Rs 13.5 lakh a year. The real shift, however, came unexpectedly.
According to him, everything changed when an Amazon recruiter reached out. “Then one day, an Amazon recruiter reached out and I made it. 60 lakh a year,” he wrote, adding that the salary was only part of his transformation. He said he has evolved into someone with an “athletic body, good humour, and a presence I never had before,” and summed up the feeling by saying, “I have not finally found myself… but I have found some of me.”
My Story – From service based company to FAANG (7.4 to 60LPA)
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Redditors flooded the comments with appreciation and curiosity. One user joked that he’d skipped all the interesting details, saying, “Congratulations OP (Original Poster)… Care to give insight into the actual story? The struggles, the way you made it… or is this one of those ‘no moral’ stories?”
Others chimed in with encouragement for people who feel stuck, with one commenter reminding underconfident readers that life can turn around if they keep taking action.
For many, especially fresh graduates, his journey felt personal. A young Redditor from a tier-3 college wrote that the story motivated him deeply as he prepares to join a service-based firm with a Rs 7.5 LPA offer, asking the OP for guidance on what tech stack to focus on and how much DSA (Data Structures and Algorithms) is needed to break into a product-based company.
FAANG refers to five major global tech giants: Facebook (now Meta), Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google.
The story struck a chord because it wasn’t just about landing a high-paying job – it was about rebuilding oneself along the way.
