Last 25 days, recorded 100+ videos.
~150 topics coming up in CN, all recorded by me.
We take every feedback seriously at @takeUforward_, many of you reported that the instructor wasn’t able to explain tough topics, and was reading through mostly.
You will get CN in-depth for interviews + work, I have spent a lot of time with this one. You are going to love the depth.
Don't overcomplicate it.
- Build a Bank Account System to learn OOP, inheritance, and polymorphism done properly
- Build a Library Management System to practice CRUD, collections, and file persistence
- Build a TCP Chat App to understand sockets, threads, and blocking I/O streams
- Build a Task Scheduler to master executors, thread pools, and Java concurrency
- Build a Simple HTTP Server to work with raw sockets, request parsing, and response logic
- Build a Student Grade Tracker to use Java Streams, sorting, and functional-style pipelines
- Build an Inventory System with JDBC to learn database integration from first principles
- Build a Dependency Injection Container to go deep on reflection, generics, and annotations
The best way to learn Java? Projects. Not tutorials.
Meet Raj Vikramaditya, who is well known as Striver, a https://t.co/YSvOF5fxhn IT graduate from Jalpaiguri Government Engineering College in the year 2020. His journey started from the slums of Mumbai to Google, and then to building his own company, Take You Forward (1.5M+ users)
When Raj Vikramaditya was born, after a month his family shifted to Mumbai, where they lived in a slum in a single room. Such was the situation that they had only one washroom shared by 50 households.
His father always wanted him to get a better education, so he enrolled him in an English-medium school in Mumbai. Later, they shifted to Kolkata, thinking that education was cheaper there and the family could survive more comfortably.
Raj Vikramaditya completed his schooling from Calcutta Public School. He appeared for JEE Main but could not clear it. However, through WBJEE, he got into Jalpaiguri Government Engineering College. He chose this college so that there would not be any burden on his family.
Right from his first year, he started coding, blogging, and content writing. By the second year, he had stopped asking his parents for money. In his third year, he was rejected for a Microsoft internship opportunity, but he did not give up. In his fourth year, he secured an Amazon internship.
During campus placements, he secured a package of ₹30 lakhs per annum at the https://t.co/Oqyer227wr, while ₹4 LPA was the average package for that college. He then made it to Google, where he worked for five years.
Alongside his job, he built Take You Forward on his own. Today, the company has 1.5M+ signed-up users and 5M+ monthly users. He now has his own office in Bangalore.
What's even more remarkable is that many IIT students follow his teaching and lectures to crack coding interviews and secure top placements.
Where there is a will, there is a way.
I knew a guy from a tier-3 college.
- 5 CGPA.
- Average attendance.
- No impressive achievements.
- When placements started, reality hit.
- He couldn't solve basic DSA questions.
Most people would have accepted defeat.
He didn't.
For 9 months:
> 6–8 hours of practice.
> No shortcuts.
> No expensive courses.
> Just showing up every day.
He failed hundreds of times.
Then one day, he didn't.
He walked out with an 18 LPA offer.
People called it talent.
It wasn't.
It was consistency.
One small interview hack, if your interview is around the corner and you don't have much time, go through the LeetCode discuss interview experiences for that company for last 6 months.
You'll get a good idea of the patterns, topics being asked, and what to expect. LeetCode discuss is an absolute goldmine if you know how to use it.
Meet Anu Sharma.
> An Indian software engineer quietly building one of the most impressive early-career journeys in tech.
> https://t.co/8rxsWQxO1E in CSE from IGDTUW
branch topper
> Twitter intern in 2022 only 2nd-year intern selected from India
> interned at Google
> interned at Intuit in 2024
Then:
> joined Google full-time as a Software Engineer in 2024
worked on cloud backup failure systems
> disappeared from the spotlight for a while
> while people wondered what happened…
she made the ultimate career move.
quietly left Google
> joined Palantir as a Forward Deployed Software Engineer
> from elite student → Google → Palantir in record time.
massive inspiration for Indian women in tech.
Most people lose at JEE and then spend the next 4 years acting like victims instead of fixing their lives. College is literally your second chance.
You can either be a normie who spends 4 years roaming around, binge watching stuff, chasing temporary dopamine, and then crying about the job market later, or you can sacrifice a few years and build a life most people dream of.
The harsh truth is nobody cares about your excuses. The world only respects results.
You can beat me at almost everything easily, but one thing you will find difficult to match is the number of hours I put in every single day. Maybe you can do it for a few days, but doing it for multiple years is different.
Remember, motivation is overrated. Discipline is what builds you.