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=== Banking ===
After graduating with a masters of business administration degree (MBA) in 1997, Bhagat was placed through his campus at [[Peregrine Investments Holdings]] in [[Canada]]. However, he lost this job within six months as the company closed its operations in 1998. His next job was as an investment banker with [[Goldman Sachs]] at their Hong Kong office. Despite being unhappy with his boss, he stayed and kept him in mind when he characterized the villain in his second novel ''[[One Night @ the Call Center]]''.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Ganguly |first=Dibeyendu |title=Chetan Bhagat: Novelist turn rock star |work=The Economic Times |url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/chetan-bhagat-novelist-turn-rock-star/articleshow/3391727.cms |access-date=2022-12-05}}</ref> He spent most of his time at the Goldman Sachs office in writing, completing and revising drafts of his first novel, ''[[Five Point Someone]]''. After two years, [[Rupa Publications]] accepted his manuscript and offered to publish it.
By 2006, he was vice-president of Strategic Investment Group, Deutsche Bank in Hong Kong.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Verveonline.com |url=http://www.verveonline.com/41/people/chetanfull.shtml |access-date=2022-12-05 |website=www.verveonline.com}}</ref> His second novel, ''One Night @ the Call Center'', was published in 2005 and became a best-seller. In March 2008, Bhagat moved back to India with his wife and three-year-old twin sons. He joined as a director in [[Deutsche Bank]]'s distressed-assets team in Kodak House, Mumbai. The same year his third novel, ''[[The 3 Mistakes of My Life]]'', was published and sold seven [[lakh]] (700,000) copies in three months.
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