‘Applications go into a black hole’

‘Applications go into a black hole’: Woman returns from London, reveals India’s job hunt nightmare

Indian woman returns from the UK and struggles with India’s crowded job market, seeking guidance on LinkedIn networking, startups and adjusting back to life at home

For many Non-Resident Indians, moving back home is a decision rooted in family, identity, and belonging. But for one young woman who recently returned from London, the homecoming has come with an unexpected challenge: the brutal reality of India’s job market.

A 25-year-old Indian woman, who studied at a top university in the UK and worked there for two years, took to Reddit to share her growing anxiety about finding work after returning to India. Her graduate visa was running out, and the job she held abroad had become “pretty toxic”. So she made a difficult choice, leave London, come home, and start over.

What does her post explain?

“I honestly didn’t expect the transition to feel this confusing, but here we are,” she wrote in the post.

Back in India, she finds herself overcrowded and chaotic due to the job market. Despite having invested heavily in her education and career abroad, she worries that her experience might not be enough to break through.

She says she is “trying to figure out how to break into the job market here,” and hopes to secure a role quickly to regain stability. Ideally, she wants to work for a multinational company. LinkedIn, she says, feels “like a black hole,” where most applications vanish without a trace. She is now turning to the internet crowd for survival strategies.

“How do people actually get noticed here?” she asks fellow Redditors. “Is cold-messaging hiring managers on LinkedIn effective in India or does it come off badly?”

She is also eager to know whether there are niche platforms or industry-specific communities where serious recruiters are actually active and whether companies in India still value the global exposure she worked so hard to gain.

‘This guy earns in 2-3 Million range annually’

The director shared a cheerful Thanksgiving note in the organisation’s channel. It was accompanied by a smiling picture of his family and friends gathered around a festive table. The TeamBlind user’s curiosity sparked: “I zoomed into see what everyone was drinking. The entire table is filled with some of the non-popular unique soda brands stocked at my office kitchen.”

This detail left the employee stunned because, as the post explained that, this leader is not exactly struggling financially. “This guy earns in 2-3 Million range annually. I genuinely cannot understand why would someone at his level would risk their job and reputation to save some dollars for free drinks. Edit – Director is an American originally from Eastern Europe.”

‘Focus on bigger things’

Netizens were divided over the Director’s behaviour. A user noted, “Calm down. Everyone i know picks up stuff from micro kitchen. Focus on bigger things in life son.” Another added, “True, everyone at Google stocks up for every get together or road trip or even guests visiting. It’s pretty normal.”

“Some people are scummy,” claimed a user. “Somebody should start a Polymarket on the race of this Director. I feel like most of us would win” added another. “You can give money to the poor, but you can’t take away the sense of being poor from that person. Your director must have a humble past,” weighed in a netizen.

“Rich people stay rich by pretending to be poor. Poor people stay poor by pretending to be rich,” added another.