What is an off-campus drive? The playbook (India, 2026)
Drive, walk-in, pool campus and an ordinary application are four different processes. What each one asks of you, and how to spot the ones that want a registration fee.
How to get an internship with no experience: the playbook (India, 2026)
10,878 of 14,004 companies posted one role and never came back. They are not running a funnel that experience is the input to.
How to write a cold email for an internship: the playbook (India, 2026)
Two thirds of postings hand you a real person's email address. The seven steps, the template, and what the ones that got replies had in common.
How to follow up after applying, without being annoying: the playbook (India, 2026)
Most people either send "any update sir?" the next morning or nothing at all. When to write, what to say at each stage, and when to stop.
44% want a DM. Only 24% have a form. How internship recruiters actually want to be contacted.
Two thirds of postings hand you a real person's email address. Most students spend their evenings on the one channel with the most competition in it.
There is no biggest employer in Indian internships. We checked all 14,004.
The 64 largest employers hold 6.3% of the market. Companies hiring exactly one intern hold 53.3%. That breaks the target-company-list strategy completely.
Data pays ₹17,500. Design pays ₹10,000. Internship stipends in India by function.
Everyone argues about which company pays best. The gap between functions is bigger — about 75% — and almost nobody talks about it.
Remote internships in India: what the data says about pay, roles, and how many there really are
Remote is 23.2% of the market, not most of it, and it pays a median ₹10,000 against ₹18,000 in Bengaluru. Which functions actually go remote, and which barely do.
Unstop alternatives: what to use when you need internships, not competitions
Most people looking for an Unstop alternative don't need one. They need a second thing open in another tab. Here's which one.
The best internship platforms in India in 2026, from people who built one
Unstop, Internshala, LinkedIn, Naukri and us. We make one of these, so we've been specific about where the others beat us rather than pretending they don't.
Off-campus vs on-campus placements: which one actually gets you hired
They fail in opposite ways. On-campus filters you out before you can try. Off-campus never filters you out - you just quietly stop applying.
How to get an off-campus internship: the playbook (India, 2026)
Most advice on this is written from memory. We built ours from real postings instead, and a few of the things we used to repeat turned out to be wrong.
We tracked 20,392 internship postings. Here's what off-campus hiring in India actually looks like.
The median off-campus internship pays ₹12,000 a month. 78% of the companies hiring post exactly one internship and never post again. And almost half of them want a message, not a form.
Why is Hopin free?
We're students ourselves, and Hopin exists because job search was swallowing college whole for us and for the people around us. This is why we want to keep it free.