You’ve refreshed your email
over 50 times, hoping for the responses that never came.
A mentorship
cohort for the
engineers of India
more than you think
The system isn't designed to be fair, but efficient.
And until you understand how to work within
that system, your technical skills will remain
hidden behind poor communication,
weak presentation, and interview anxiety.
If you're reading this, there's a 99.56% chance your application will be rejected for internships due to reasons that have nothing to do with your ability to code:
1. Bad communication skills.
2. Average portfolio with projects already
done by a hundred other candidates.
3. You had absolutely no idea how
to give an interview/group discussion.
4. You dropped off from the interviews
yourself to avoid a failure upon you.
Here's what's even worse:
1. You'll keep applying to 100+ companies a day
2. None of you will ever figure what you're doing wrong
3. Enough rejections will eventually break your morale from within
We know, how you've spent countless hours perfecting that line of code a recruiter will never see. Built Full Stack project that work flawlessly. You understand data structures, algorithms, and system design better than most. But when you sit through the process, something happens. Resumes don’t translate to shortlists, communication based rounds are fumbled in ways you didn’t expect and the lack of a response is all you get.
I know this because I've been there and been the first ever “job interview” for way too many students at this point.
As someone who's sat on both sides of the interview table—the nervous candidate fumbling through explanations, and the interviewer watching brilliant students sabotage their own chances through clearly avoidable mistakes. I've seen how much of a difference proper guidance would’ve made.
Being an HR, its a painful leverage to be at the receiving end of such applications.
You need a reality check.
Here are some inconvenient truths your college placement cell will never tell you.
A majority candidates today are an overconfident mess. They have no idea of what they don’t know, and it takes them an interview to find that out. For a majority of them, we happen to be their first formal interview interaction, let alone a mock. It’s a shame.
Over the past month, we received over 3,000+ applications across just five roles. We reviewed every single one: manually. We went through portfolios, clicked through live projects, and gave each profile a fair shot.
65 candidates made it to the interview stage. Out of those, only four candidates received offers. That’s less than 0.1% of all applicants.
Think about that for a moment: that’s 2996 talented students left hanging, waiting for a chance that never came. These aren't numbers on a spreadsheet, these are students like you, with dreams, projects, and potential.
Just as it's illegal for military leaders to send soldiers into battle without weapons, Universities should be mandated to equip students with communication skills, since their success in life depends completely on how well they speak, write, and think—in that order.
This reality makes many students anxious and desperate.
You build a clean resume, push some projects live, start applying to 100+ companies a day—and still, silence. Not even rejections. Naturally, your mind starts drifting:
“what exactly am I doing wrong?”
You were never prepared for what’s to come, and we see that everyday. Utterly bad communications skills, zero interview confidence, copied projects from Youtube/Udemy tutorials, frontend designs which make your eyes bleed, and much more.
Most avoid honest feedback to protect themselves legally and dodge uncomfortable conversations. You’re left in the dark because recruiters aren’t paid to spend extra time on mediocre profiles through feedback.
Second, your batch has thousands of students. If Universities spent even an hour giving you proper mock interviews and feedback, it would cost them multiple lakhs in salaries alone. Personalized prep at that scale just doesn’t make business or
economic sense for them.
We've been at the receiving end of more
than 1,000 interviews that many would consider borderline embarrassing, simply because candidates weren't prepared for what was coming at them.
- Portfolios that scream "template" from the first glance.
- Basic projects that literally every other person
- Generic cold emails and LinkedIn messages written with ChatGPT with no clear call to action.
- Students who can't speak with confidence about their own projects.
- Impressive technical skills that completely fall apart under interview pressure.
You only get 4-5 chances at those dream company interviews next year. Blow them because you weren't prepared for the pressure, and you're looking at settling for whatever opportunities are left.
We see countless students, brilliant in their technical execution, get overwhelmed by nervousness during their first interview; a completely preventable situation.
Most students don't need generic feedback:
they need a mirror. They need to see themselves as interviewers see them, understand exactly where
their communication breaks down, and practice
until their responses become natural.
Not because you're incompetent, but because interviewing is a skill that nobody teaches you
and you have no idea how hard your competitors
have worked. Your classmates don't know any
better than you do. Your professors are decades
removed from the modern interview process.
The Bhaiyas on Youtube are busy selling another
“50LPA Full Stack development” video course
and you assume its enough.
You walk into that room not knowing what questions
are coming. Your heart starts racing the moment they ask about your background in ways you never expected. When faced with a question for the first time, you go blank and your voice doesn't sound as smart as your thoughts, and you're left wondering: "How should I have actually answered this?”
For many of you, we'll be your first real interview experience. You’ll think communication skills will
never concern you until you're fighting for attention
in a group discussion with 10 other equally qualified candidates in the room.
The problem isn’t that you lack knowledge,
but you’ve never cared to practice speaking
under pressure.
Where we could help
After watching great candidates bomb interviews over avoidable mistakes, we decided to bridge the gap between what college teaches and what companies actually want. Focused on ensuring that genuinely qualified candidates don't lose opportunities because of fixable communication issues.
The sheer number of applicants makes it economically impossible for recruiters to give individual feedback: which is exactly why we created this cohort and seek to invite 35 passionate students from our applicant community to practice live mock interviews, fix their portfolios (projects, resumes) and learn how to think of projects as startups. All from a Founding team building a recruitment startup in Conversational GenAI.
For us, mentorship is not a one-time gig.
Harsh Vardhan (Founder & Lead of Product at Oddmind Innovations), began his mentorship journey back in 2021 for a select group of hundred students back at his university in Public Speaking at The Debating Society. Years later, racking up 125+ accolades as a community throughout IITs, IIMs, DU and all major state universities in North India and now leading up to a thousand students competing to join what we built from nothing. This mentorship cohort is a way forward onto a more target oriented learning group. We’re not here to play around.
He identified communication gaps way before, that still persist today. This initiative to train confident individuals through structured activities isn’t something we’re doing for our first time. The need is too urgent, too widespread.
Let Us Roast the Fuck out of you
We're not career counselors or motivational speakers. We're practitioners who review applications and conduct interviews daily. Expect direct feedback, uncomfortable truths, and zero sugar-coating.
Here’s what we could do for you:
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Get you to speak right in front of real life technical interviewers
- Tell you exactly what’s wrong with your projects (and profile)
- Tell you where AI is exactly eating your job
- Tell exactly where you stand against Top 10% intern profiles
- Throw you into group discussions on tech topics that actually matter.
- Teach you everything you’ll never be able to cheat on during an interview.
- Understand recruitment from the interviewer's perspective by real HRs
- Go through personal interviews organized by our developer team
- Tell you where your frontend-design probably sucks.
What We Cannot Do:
- Magically get you an internship and shortlists
- Correct your existing projects or build new ones for you
- Fix your shitty resume on your behalf
- Teach you how to code or cover course materials you should already know
Foundation & Reality Check
Saturday, 19th July 2:00–3:30 PM Meet your cohort + Introductions
Sunday, 20th July 2:00–3:30 PM WTF are HRs looking for & why you keep getting rejected?
Assignment
WEEK 2 Settling in: Communication
Saturday, 26th July 2:00-3:30 PM Group Discussion (Generative AI)
Sunday, 27th July 2:00-4:00 PM Live Resume Review + what matters in an interview.
Assignment
WEEK 3 Judging a Book by its Cover
Saturday, 2nd August 2:00-3:30 PM Group Discussion (Technology)
Sunday, 3rd August 2:00-3:30 PM Roasting your shitty front-ends with a Product Designer
Assignment
WEEK 4Technical Interview Deep Dive
Saturday, 9th August 3:00-4:30 PM Group Discussion (Current Affairs)
Sunday, 10th August 2:00-3:30PM Live Technical Interviews with the developer team
Assignment
WEEK 5 (Bonus) Sneak into Startups
Saturday, 16th August 3:00-4:30 PM Group Discussions (General)
Sunday, 17th August 2:00-3:30 PM How startups really operate
Demo Day
Selected participants will join our "Recruit With Us" program, where we're actively hiring for full-stack roles at Oddmind Innovations. Get real interview experience while competing for actual positions.
Investment & Commitment
5 Weeks Program Fee: ₹2790 for 4 weeks of intensive training.
Why We Charge: We've learned you won't fully commit unless you invest. If you can't devote 4 weekends of your life to improving your future prospects, this program isn't for you. And if you think your 8.0 CGPA will save you in the current market, think again.
The program will be invite only, each applied profile shall be reviewed before allowing any sort of transaction to ensure good quality profiles.
Batch Size: We're only keeping 35 spots because that's the maximum number of people we can work with effectively. Anything beyond that defeats the purpose of personalized learning.
Format: Live sessions only, no "pre-recorded lectures". We’re not here to bore you.
Is this Program for you?
- You’re a pre-final/final-year student who’s never been interviewed before.
- Your uni’s placement cell is a joke.
- You've applied to multiple companies but gotten silence as an answer.
Join us if:
Not for you if:
- You’ve already cracked multiple internships
- You’re absolutely new to web- development & have zero projects
- You’re doing this for a certificate.
- You have it all figured out.
This July, we’re welcoming a focused
group of just 35 students.
Enrollments begin August 16th 2025.
group of just 35 students.
Enrollments begin August 16th 2025.
We're not promising magic or guaranteed placements, anyone who promises that is lying to you. But we're promising to sit on top of your heads still you're communicating like a professional instead of like someone who learned English from tech tutorials.
We're not an exploitative course platform with unrealistic guarantees, just a group of developers, designers, and recruiters who wish we had them when we were in your position.
Still have questions? Email us at oddmindinnovations@gmail.com for a personal response from our team. No templates, no automated replies—just straight answers.