He is an graduate from IIT and New York University and living in NYC. Yet, Akash Sampurnanand Pandey feels his matrimony market is almost “zero,” as he had failed to crack the UPSC and become an IAS or bag a government job. Taking to X, Pandey revealed how people from Bihar and UP are expected to go to IIT and crack the UPSC and become a collector. At the age of 31, he had established a career as a software engineer in New York City, working from an office on the 60th floor of the World Trade Center. His academic credentials included a master's degree from New York University and an undergraduate degree from IIT (BHU) Varanasi.Despite these accomplishments, he remarked on the irony that such achievements carried little weight in the traditional marriage market of Uttar Pradesh. In a social environment where prestigious government positions are often highly valued, the absence of a career as an IAS officer or any government employee was, in his view, enough to diminish his perceived desirability as a prospective groom, regardless of his educational background and professional success abroad.— late_bloomer_7 (@late_bloomer_7) In the comments, he wrote that he had managed to secure a lovely Argentinian girlfriend. Reacting to the post, an X user wrote: “How could you be such educated and probably exposed yet so aloof? Maybe because you are still gathering EQ on the top of that great IQ that you have. That said, why should you even care about your near zero arranged marriage prospects? You can get married wherever you want..” Another commented that the marriage market have changed nowadays. “Bro, that may be true in some cases, but things have changed. My IIT KGP graduate neighbor working at MathWorks gets plenty of marriage proposals but wants ₹50 lakh in dowry. There are many such cases now,as people know government jobs are limited…” the comment read. As per his LinkedIn profile, Pandey is a software engineer at Rippling. He holds a Master Of Science from NYU and a BS in Metallurgical Engineering from IIT Varanasi.