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95% engineers in India unfit for software development jobs, claims report
PTI ^ | 4/20/17

Posted on 04/20/2017 6:32:14 AM PDT by markomalley

Talent shortage is acute in the IT and data science ecosystem in India with a survey claiming that 95% of engineers in the country are not fit to take up software development jobs.

According to a study by employability assessment company Aspiring Minds, only 4.77% candidates can write the correct logic for a programme -- a minimum requirement for any programming job.

Over 36,000 engineering students form IT related branches of over 500 colleges took Automata -- a Machine Learning based assessment of software development skills - and over 2/3 could not even write code that compiles.

The study further noted that while more than 60% candidates cannot even write code that compiles, only 1.4% can write functionally correct and efficient code.



"Lack of programming skills is adversely impacting the IT and data science ecosystem in India. The world is moving towards introducing programming to three-year-old! India needs to catch up," Aspiring Minds CTO and co-founder Varun Aggarwal said.

(Excerpt) Read more at gadgetsnow.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: h1b; india; software; technology
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To: Mr. K

“They are giving away engineering degrees with 3 cereal box tops there, it seems.”

A requirement for H-1B outsourcers is a BS degree minimum. In India they are regularly sold to anyone with the money to buy it.

Then they come to America and work for 1/2 of US wages and nobody dare challenge their competence for fear of a discrimination suit.


81 posted on 04/20/2017 9:48:54 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: jdege

And not all competent programmers have a CS degree, or ANY degree.
Most good programmers are self taught.

As are most of the excellent Systems and Network Engineers.


82 posted on 04/20/2017 10:02:20 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Mr. Jeeves

In “modern” development, they move more and more to the front end/web server in the name of efficiency... but over time, I have noticed that it takes longer and longer to do anything... both to code it and for it to run.

Amazing how the word efficiency doesn’t seem to mean what I think it means :)


83 posted on 04/20/2017 10:36:45 AM PDT by csivils
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To: All

That and you still can’t understand a word they say on the phone even though the majority of the time their name is Mike. LoL


84 posted on 04/20/2017 10:55:54 AM PDT by ssfromla (Free)
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To: Texicanus
Boy, there has been a lot of change in the IT world since I dated Grace Hopper

Is that just a figure of speech or you really that old? (or were you her 'boy toy'?)

/s

85 posted on 04/20/2017 10:59:00 AM PDT by BwanaNdege ("The church ... is not the master or the servant of the state, but the conscience" - Luther)
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To: InABunkerUnderSF

My brother in law is an American born doctor and I asked him about foreign doctors and he said:

Western European-fine.
Eastern European-for the most part fine.
Israeli-fine.
Indian/Pakistani/Middle-eastern you pay your money, you take your chances.
Japan-fine.
Rest of Asia-see middle eastern description.


86 posted on 04/20/2017 11:48:32 AM PDT by sarge83
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To: BwanaNdege

Great response.


87 posted on 04/20/2017 1:21:32 PM PDT by Texicanus (GOD bless Texas and the USA)
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To: Texicanus

The left rants about ‘sexism’ and ‘female stereotypes’, yet most of women portrayed by Hollywood reinforce exactly that.

Why no good heroine drama about Adm. Hopper? What a story of her life’s work!

Same questions for Blacks as portrayed by Hollywood. Where is the compelling movie about the work of George Washington Carver?

(Getting back to the original Thread, while I once held the job title of “Software Programmer”, I, too, would probably fall within the ‘95% ... unfit for software development jobs’. I do know that I’ve worked with Indian software developers who were as good as 95% of the American software developers I knew.)


88 posted on 04/20/2017 4:39:28 PM PDT by BwanaNdege ("The church ... is not the master or the servant of the state, but the conscience" - Luther)
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To: markomalley

I think they now have jobs offering to remove viruses from my Internet Computer.


89 posted on 04/20/2017 6:57:07 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy (I never ever set out to make anyone feel safe. - S E Hinton)
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To: BwanaNdege; Texicanus
Why no good heroine drama about Adm. Hopper? What a story of her life’s work!

Same questions for Blacks as portrayed by Hollywood. Where is the compelling movie about the work of George Washington Carver?

"Hidden Figures" was pretty good.

90 posted on 04/20/2017 7:28:44 PM PDT by thecodont
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