3 year career gap dilemma, Please help

People say career gap does not matter for placements after MTech. If I give GATE 2026 and get an IIT, I will have 2.7 years(almost 3yr) career gap.

Can anyone tell me, does the companies restrict MTech students in their hiring during placements?

Does most companies which are high paying even consider people with high career gap during placements?

Maybe a person with 3yrs gaps is limited to 10lpa package company and a guy without gap has max maybe 1cr package company?is this true?