Feature Shubh Kumar graduated from IIT Patna, one of India's famed Institutes of Technology – universities that attract millions of applicants but admit only 18,000 undergraduates.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai and IBM boss Arvind Krishna are both IIT alumni, and employers seek out IIT students. New grads are generally optimistic that attaining a degree at one of the 23 institutes is a great start to a career.

But that dream didn't come true for Kumar. Weeks before he was due to join a local startup as a software development engineer, the company revoked its job offer, citing "significant consolidation" and an "extremely challenging financial position."

Students working in Engine Research Laboratory Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Kanpur Indian Institute of Technology

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