{"id":988052,"date":"2026-01-27T11:06:34","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T05:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=988052"},"modified":"2026-01-27T11:06:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T05:36:34","slug":"from-tier-3-college-to-google-how-this-techies-years-of-quiet-grit-paid-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/27\/from-tier-3-college-to-google-how-this-techies-years-of-quiet-grit-paid-off\/","title":{"rendered":"From Tier-3 college to Google: How this techie&#8217;s years of quiet grit paid off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an era dominated by overnight success stories, a software engineer\u2019s account of slow, persistent effort has struck a chord on social media. Archy Gupta, who now works at Google, has gone viral after candidly sharing how she went from a Tier-3 engineering college to securing an L4 role at the global tech giant.<\/p>\n<p>In a series of Instagram posts, Gupta reflected on a journey marked not by instant breakthroughs, but by years of discipline, rejection and steady self-improvement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an era dominated by overnight success stories, a software engineer\u2019s account of slow, persistent effort has struck a chord on social media. Archy Gupta, who now works at Google, has gone viral after candidly sharing how she went from a Tier-3 engineering college to securing an L4 role at the global tech giant. In a series of Instagram posts, Gupta reflected on a journey marked not by instant breakthroughs, but by years of discipline, rejection and steady self-improvement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-988052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=988052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}