I am a Mech student from a Tier-1 institute (India) graduating this year. I am starting as a SDE at a new startup which is not very renowned. I want to understand how things would go for me later on in my Software Engineering career as a Mech student as I have not done much programming during my BTech but am starting off now. How can I manuever through things now to land better opportunities later and what roadblocks/discrimination can I expect to face? What would be best moves hereafter? What opportunities are still open to me and what opportunities are not? Also, can I expect my TC to grow as fast as it would for a CSE student? A lot of questions, would love some help from those who have went through similar conditions or seen people handle similar circumstances. TIA