IIT graduate turned down Amazon for UPSC, faced 3 setbacks, but his next move took him to IIM Ahmedabad

Vivekananda’s journey from IIT Hyderabad to IIM Ahmedabad is a powerful lesson in resilience and reinvention. After turning down an Amazon SDE offer to pursue his UPSC dream, he appeared in three attempts but missed the final selection. He later cleared SSC CGL and, with just 45 days of CAT preparation, scored 99.92 percentile, earning admission to IIM Ahmedabad.