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From Roorkee to Flipkart: My Off-Campus Journey to an SDE Internship

Summer 2025

JUL 7, 2025

While most internships came through campus portals and coding-heavy filters, Vishal Bokhare, from a non‑circuital branch, chose an off‑campus route filled with rejections, learning curves, and small wins. His national‑level performance in Flipkart GRID proved to be the turning point and led to interviews he earned on his own. This edition of Internship Diaries traces his journey from initial exploration to execution and concludes in Bengaluru, where he now works as an SDE intern at Flipkart.

Sahir Ludhianvi

Editorial

APR 6, 2024

Sahir, a man who wrote things that no other soul had ever imagined. Today, in this article, I’m trying to reopen the dust-laden books of Sahir’s magic

Nivedita Sharma

Almost Famous

DEC 10, 2014

20 gold medals, 5 championship trophies, countless laps in the swimming pool and a smile that could make your day, Nivedita Sharma, is probably the greatest athlete IIT Roorkee has seen in recent years. Clearly, after her recen...