'Some moments stay in your heart forever': Google techie's lesson in life and class wins internet

‘Old memories die hard’, goes an old adage. Reminiscing about one such moment years ago, a Google engineer, who once taught coding to students in his college, expressed satisfaction at seeing that class of juniors make it to Amazon. Raj Vikramaditya, who operates by the name ‘Striver’ on the microblogging site X, shared the photograph which he adds ‘will be etched in his heart forever.’ The Google techie expressed happiness at all those first benchers finally making it to Amazon as software engineers.

Sharing the underlying memory linked to the incident, Vikramaditya recalled how the power kicked off in the middle of the coding class but since everyone insisted on continuing the class, they got their flashlights on. Additionally, he shared a screenshot of the comment section on LinkedIn in which the then ‘first benchers’ had commented with details of their current organisations visible next to their names. The exchange shows engineers indulging in a memory play.

Check out the post:

https://twitter.com/striver_79/status/1685694484267347968

Uploaded 2 days ago, the post garnered over 33,000 views.

Check out some of the responses below:

“Bhaiya tomorrow is my first day as a third year Btech student. Any tips and advice?” asked one user.

https://twitter.com/yashhverse/status/1685694822093631488

To this Vikramaditya replied, “Patience.”

https://twitter.com/striver_79/status/1685695693615181824

Another commented, “Damn, this is inspirational.”

https://twitter.com/PranavPandey345/status/1685731904249905152

In addition, some people posted red hearts emojis.

In a conversation with Moneycontrol, Vikramaditya, a former Amazon employee himself and currently employed at Google in Poland, spoke about that particular college. The West Bengal-based Jalpaiguri government engineering college is a tier-3 institute where no company comes for placements.

With no support from college faculty either, the students took matters into their own hands. They formed a coding club where seniors took classes for juniors after official college hours. It was during a lecture on ‘prefix sum’, when the lights went off. However, since everyone was interested in the class, they used multiple flashlights and finished the lecture.

He further added that the students’ dedication to work has finally paid off, with some holding outstanding placement records in the state. Speaking about students’ placements, he added, “Many from 2021-2023 are working in Google, Amazon, Swiggy, JP Morgan, Microsoft, and other top tech companies and most of them were part of the coding club.”