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Gurgaon based company Aspiring Minds, which does skills development, does a skill survey of fresh engineering grads and finds <5% of them can write a program.
Vested interest? Perhaps. Underestimate? Unlikely, going by my experience with fresh IT grads. Bad methodology? Definitely - for starters, I am sure the sample set was mostly from lower ranking colleges. But it's not like I didn't have classmates at IIT who couldn't code to save their lives.
This news has now been picked up by the American news cycle. It is helping convert the anti H1B hysteria to anti outsourcing hysteria. Which is good thing. There is nothing wrong with the H1-B program. It is being abused, is all.
I am going to get some hate for this. Especially since I am good friends with a lot of former Infy, TCS and Wipro people. But the sooner the Indian outsourcing industry transforms into something better, the better it is for all of us. I can scarcely recommend what it can transform into. But the whole model of billing software development by person hours is just shameful. It is even worse that fresh graduates with literally no skills are routinely billed to paying customers.
I don't know why the right wingers don't pick this up? They are always so concerned about Indian prestige and India's image in the eyes of the west. If there is anything that drags global perception of Indian abilities in the mud, it is the IT outsourcing industry.
May this also accelerate the demise of poorly run engineering colleges, both public and private. Professional education is tough work. If you're not up to it, shut shop rather than cheat people. It is also expensive. Doing a shoddy job at half the price is not a good business model.
Most of the ex-outsourcing people I know, are doing remarkable work in their lives. Did they need that initial boost that their first job gave them? I think not. It is just a waste of good talent and a young individual's genuine interest in making the world a better place. These people formed the 20% that actually get any work done at such places, carrying the dead weight of the remaining 80% in the team (and invoice).
My first job at Samsung was borderline outsourcing. I was at a captive development centre. We were building products. But the mentality was of billing hours, not billing work. It sucked. I can scarcely imagine how badly it sucks for the freshers we send to the marching field of IT outsourcing.
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Gurgaon based company Aspiring Minds, which does skills development, does a skill survey of fresh engineering grads and finds <5% of them can write a program.
Vested interest? Perhaps. Underestimate? Unlikely, going by my experience with fresh IT grads. Bad methodology? Definitely - for starters, I am sure the sample set was mostly from lower ranking colleges. But it's not like I didn't have classmates at IIT who couldn't code to save their lives.
This news has now been picked up by the American news cycle. It is helping convert the anti H1B hysteria to anti outsourcing hysteria. Which is good thing. There is nothing wrong with the H1-B program. It is being abused, is all.
I am going to get some hate for this. Especially since I am good friends with a lot of former Infy, TCS and Wipro people. But the sooner the Indian outsourcing industry transforms into something better, the better it is for all of us. I can scarcely recommend what it can transform into. But the whole model of billing software development by person hours is just shameful. It is even worse that fresh graduates with literally no skills are routinely billed to paying customers.
I don't know why the right wingers don't pick this up? They are always so concerned about Indian prestige and India's image in the eyes of the west. If there is anything that drags global perception of Indian abilities in the mud, it is the IT outsourcing industry.
May this also accelerate the demise of poorly run engineering colleges, both public and private. Professional education is tough work. If you're not up to it, shut shop rather than cheat people. It is also expensive. Doing a shoddy job at half the price is not a good business model.
Most of the ex-outsourcing people I know, are doing remarkable work in their lives. Did they need that initial boost that their first job gave them? I think not. It is just a waste of good talent and a young individual's genuine interest in making the world a better place. These people formed the 20% that actually get any work done at such places, carrying the dead weight of the remaining 80% in the team (and invoice).
My first job at Samsung was borderline outsourcing. I was at a captive development centre. We were building products. But the mentality was of billing hours, not billing work. It sucked. I can scarcely imagine how badly it sucks for the freshers we send to the marching field of IT outsourcing.
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