By Nikhil Pandey
Publication Date: 2026-04-18 11:34:00
An Indian software engineer living in London has gone viral on social media after sharing his remarkable journey from failing his IIT entrance exams to securing a position at Meta with a reported salary of Rs 1.7 crore.
Amit Dutta posted a video on Instagram recounting the highs and lows of his career, beginning with his failure to gain entry to the prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology in 2018. While his peers celebrated their acceptances, Dutta enrolled at a lesser-known institution – a moment he describes as a turning point in his thinking rather than a defeat.
“I stopped mourning the college I didn’t get and started becoming the engineer no college could take credit for,” he wrote in the caption accompanying the video.
His road to success was far from straightforward. In 2021, he was turned down for a Microsoft internship despite weeks of preparation….
