Your Name and nice Photograph of yourself/your Business/ etc
Sanket Saurav
Your E-mail id
sanket@campushash.com
Your Social Media links (delete which you don’t have)
Facebook – facebook.com/sanketsaurav
Twitter – twitter.com/sanketsaurav
Linkedin – linkedin.com/in/sanketsaurav
If you have a Company/Start up, its URL –
campushash.com
Your therodinhoods.wpengine.com page link (compulsory) –
https://www.therodinhoods.com/profile/SanketSaurav
What exactly do you do?
At CampusHash, we are bringing state-of-the-art technologies of the Web to the college campuses. We connect the college campuses to the IT industry and the startup scene in India through CampusHash InternHacks, which provide startups to hire interns and freshers from colleges in a fresh, innovative and more effective way. We organize workshops and hackathons on technologies like Python, Google App Engine, Django and HTML5.
Why do you do what you do? Is it to make money, to become famous, to run away from something, to retire, to kill boredom ?
As a student of Computer Science and Engineering, I felt that there was something wrong with how everyone hired – interns or fresh hires. Students from small colleges generally get ignored and end up working at a small position in a big services company, even if they are really, really. Also, hiring through competitive programming competitions ignores students who are good at creating stuff – who are good at, say, JavaScript or HTML5 or CSS, or who know the web inside out.
This, in my opinion, is a real problem. So, I wanted to solve it in a different way, and disrupt hiring as a we know it. And, I love speaking to people and teaching them things that I know.
Is there anything unique in what you do?
Yes. CampusHash InternHacks are two-day events. On day 1, an expert from the industry gives a workshop on a technology like Python, Google App Engine, Django or HTML5. Its a hands-on workshop where students learn to build stuff.
Day 2 is a hackathon where students select an idea and build a prototype for it over 6 hours using the technology taught.
We select the top developers on the basis of their code, and recommend them to startups who are our Intern Partners. These startups consider them for internships or fresh hiring.
What happens if this fails?
We are working on a few other ideas. If this fails, we’ll shift our focus on one of our other ground-breaking ideas.
Any one or two incidents that make you shiver or feel proud of your journey so far?
We were organizing a workshop on Python in association with PyCon India at KIIT University. We were relatively new, but the event went really well. When I returned, I checked my mailbox and I had got at least 30 emails from students saying how amazing the workshop had been, and asking a hell lot of follow up questions. That made our team proud.
State one really bad habit and one good habit (if you actually have one)
Bad one: I underestimate the time I need to complete a work.
Good one: I can slog really long hours when I’m coding.
Famous last words to the readers?
Let’s not wait for the future. Let’s create it ourselves.
Finally, say YES below the next para:
I solemnly put my hand on my religious book/favorite novel and swear that what I have said above (including my photos) is the truth. So help me, Rodinhood
YES!
