Although IIIT Lucknow is an excellent institute in terms of placement and coding culture, IIIT Guwahati is not very far from the standards of IIIT Lucknow. There are several negative reviews about IIIT Guwahati over the internet and it is being falsely treated as inferior. 

The table below gives a brief level of comparison among the two institutes.

Key Highlights:

• Guwahati has very pleasant weather throughout the year, except for the humid month of August. Lucknow has an extreme type climate and so, this pleasance is lacking there. There is no problem of severe mosquitoes in Guwahati, but spiders and lights insects are often found.
• It is true that IIIT Lucknow has excellent coding culture inside its campus, with participation in several competitions. But, there are false facts about IIIT Guwahati that it has no such culture, and these are purely misleading. 
• There are some excellent professors in IIIT Guwahati. Going into some personal preferences by students, lecturers from some professors namely Soumi ma’am (CSE), Sumit sir (CSE), Mansoor sir (ECE), Arjun sir (Maths), etc are quite interesting. 
• The attendance rule of 75-85% is not very strict to be followed in IIIT Guwahati.
• Classrooms and laboratories in the academic building are well equipped with all necessary facilities and equipment and are air-conditioned too. Mostly, students are given single occupancy rooms, with attached toilets, which may be delayed due to the construction of a new hostel. 
• Mess quality is a place of personal opinion and depends upon the type of food one likes. IIIT Guwahati serves both veg and non-veg food, in North and South-Indian cuisines. There is a little issue with the hygiene of the mess in IIIT Guwahati, which is usually the case in all hostels. 
• Placements alone can never be the means of judgment for a batch of students, considering the fact that past records don’t matter that much in the future.

Therefore, both the institutes are good, with the presence of all necessary facilities and offerings. Reviewing an institute should not be manipulative and misleading.

Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is a worldwide program that familiarizes students with open sources, free software, and technology-related organizations to enhance their code skills. The organization makes the provision of mentors and advisers through the entire procedure, from studying and learning about the community to subscribing code. The idea behind this is to get the students involved in these programs and familiarize them with the open-source community and help them to utilize their summer vacation to good use. 

A close friend of mine goes to IIIT Lucknow. From him, I got to know about the GSOC selection of IIIT Lucknow. 

GSOC in IIIT Lucknow:

The technical club AXIOSwas formed in the session of 2018–2019 in IIIT Lucknow and in the first two years of its functioning, the following have been observed in the GSOC results.

• GSOC (2019) : 3GSOC Students
• GSOC (2020) : 2 GSOC Students & 2 GSOC Mentors

The team is very proud of the outcome and believes that the numbers will keep on increasing exponentially in the coming future.

The coding culture of IIIT Lucknow is not at all something that one should question. Being mentored by IIIT Allahabad which was also famous for its coding culture, IIIT Lucknow has gone very far. It has not only taken forward the legacy of good coding culture, but it has also worked beyond it since the launch of its pilot batch. 

• With the dedicated hard work of students and faculties, the institute has enlisted itself in the top 200 college list of code forces in a minimum time span of 5 years. 
• The students of IIIT Lucknow have proved their worth in many other competitions as well apart from competitive coding. They have set the benchmarks really high in various other fields like Web Development, CyberSecurity in Inter IIIT, and of various other institutes as well.
• The culture of coding is so better over here that the students start excavating the new IT technologies from the first year only. Obviously, they get the same environment throughout which helps them. 
• For continuous motivation of the students, separate technical wings are formed by the college authorities so that more and more students engage with such technical activities. 

The plus point is that all the seniors take the coding classes of the first year. You can reach out to them easily from any queries. This helps the students of the first year to give a kickstart to their competitive coding journey. So, if you are willing to get into IIIT Lucknow and you have average coding skills, don't worry, you’ll get through it.

Among the above three institutes, IIIT Gwalior is the best choice, considering the fact that it is the oldest IIIT and offers excellent placement and academic facilities. The preference order of choice among the institutes is given below.

IIIT Gwalior > IIIT Jabalpur > IIIT Lucknow

The table below gives a brief level of comparison among the three institutes.

Key Highlights:

• The cut-off for admission to IIIT Gwalior is a validation of the fact that it is the best choice. It has its infrastructure spread across a 100-acre campus, being the oldest IIIT and maintaining its standard of placement and academics.
• Jabalpur has a 260-acre campus. In terms of placement and infrastructure, it comes just after IIIT Gwalior. But in terms of research, IIIT Jabalpur is ahead of the other two.
• IIIT Lucknow has a 50-acre campus and is mostly under construction, and is just 2 batches old. It is growing with time and needs to gain fame eventually. IIIT Lucknow has good placement, even in the first pass-out batch. It would be an excellent choice in the future if the records in placement are retained.

Therefore, the above order is the choice of preference a candidate will find relevant. No candidate should be misguided just by recent placement records and statistics.

Placement at any institute primarily depends on the alumni base and the student quality. As IIIT Lucknow is a fairly new establishment it does not have a wide alumni base. However, the placement record for the institute has been great for the 1st batch. 

Here is the latest placement record of the institute. 

In the coming 4 years, the placement situation of the institute is likely to improve. The institute has already made a mark in the IT industry.