India, March 12 -- A software engineer from a Tier-1 college took to Reddit to share his experience while hunting for a job after taking a 1.5-year gap.

He said he was working for a public benefit corporation (PBC) and had to resign because his father was diagnosed with kidney failure and had to undergo an urgent kidney transplant.

"I had to resign and run to my hometown to manage all this with my dad's business," the engineer said.

He added that after 1.5 years, when his situation stabilised, he began applying for a job and even used referrals but was rejected by most of the companies. "Whenever any HT called for screening, they used to talk like having a gap is some kind of a cardinal sin. Most of them rejected straight away and the ...