Hello, I am a final year student from a respectable university in India. At the beginning of the last year in college, IT companies like Amazon etc visited campus for Software Developer profile. I am pretty good in academics and have many personal hobby projects in Python.
I decided to let go of these companies because I didn't feel for their profiles, and I really don't like advanced algorithms. I think there is more to computer science that that. Plus, I am proficient in Python and they don't allow it to be used in their technical rounds, atleast here. I like data and all the creativity that follows it.
Anyway, I decided to apply to startups by the end of my 7th semester. I am currently a Google Summer of Code student with good experience in Python and NLP. Hopefully by the end of this semester I will have completed both ML from Stanford and DataSci from Uni of Washington on Coursera. I am counting on those two courses and additional experience to get me good highpaying jobs off-campus.
Would that be enough to even apply to start ups outside of India? Say Silicon Valley, or even data profiles of Amazon, Google , Microsoft etc?
I am just really nervous and hope I didn't take a wrong decision by letting go of companies that visited campus, hoping that I will get what I like off-campus.
What can I do in this one year apart from those two MOOCs to make myself valuable to any place I apply to?
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