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Given the number of graduates who join the workforce every year in India, plus the traditional model of companies to maintain a bench for graduate engineer in anticipation of big contracts, the number doesn't look disproportionate. Apart from all the politics and shifting revenue targets (which are the culprit to a great extent), todays technology trends clearly indicates a lot of "high-valued" job are going to be re…
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I don't think Ukraine is catching up to India, it's just different work. In my experience, the typical job going to Ukraine is a different breed. If you can deal with the time zone and language barrier, they have a weirdly large supply of very competent developers. In fact, C++ devs from that region are the secret sauce to a lot of large codebases I've seen.
> they have a weirdly large supply of very competent developers. I've noticed this as well. Very strange that it is so "poor" but so talented. I guess that probably won't last.
These people are mainly relatively unskilled. These companies are notorious for hiring entire batches of graduating students. Situation in top tier colleges is lot better. This can be seen from increase in placements in IITs this year.
>This can be seen from increase in placements in IITs this year. That's probably because they are pushed by their families, "go and study IT, this is the best paid job at the moment". That doesn't mean that the value, skills, abilities of the new graduates will increase, I tend to believe the opposite.
So even if families pressure their kids, they will not be able to get an admission in these institutes unless they demonstrate required skills.
Here are past exam papers - https://www.jeeadv.ac.in/Archives-Past-Que-papers.html
For value, skill, and ability, please google the research done by the students at these universities and the firms that hire these students.
There are some jobs I've had in the past that didn't pan out, and I'm glad they didn't because I wouldn't have grown if I had stayed in them.
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What is said is partially true. The curriculum wont get updated soon enough to catch up with industry trends. However Basic and Logo or Excel is not true. I graduated in 2004 and Java was the most prominent language we used, followed by C++ and then C. All of these are very relevant even today. However it was upto the students to explore more outside of what is taught in the curriculum. Even if you are not willing to…
>>The curriculum wont get updated soon enough to catch up with industry trends. No instituition. Not even in the US or any part of the world, will rewrite their syllabus and text books every time something the equivalent of React or Angular JS comes along. You generally teach the base skills from which much can be learned and grown. Also I don't understand this thing about asking colleges to train people in the lates…
The situation is different in India.. Our schools, though are called the same name as institutions in US, are basically skill training workshops. Last time I checked there are 100000 graduates coming out of school in each state, and there would be at least a million engineering graduates produced every year throughout whole of India. Remember there are no strict rules and things have to change with the changing world. India needs to think different than the rest of the world.
Did I mention Angular or React? I mentioned ML/AI, and latest Data structures which is 100% relevant for any recent graduate to learn or at least be aware of. React and Angular are just libraries and any one can learn them if they have solid programming base.
But ML/AI is a very different beast as they require you to have good solid understanding of mathematics, statistics, probability theorem etc, which is difficult to acquire outside without spending considerable amount of time.
Not sure why this made such big news because this is pretty much evident once you talk to a majority of cs undergrads, they literally have no idea and interest in cs but are in it because it is, well, 'trending'.
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Can you share some numbers? If you count colocation as cloud, I think there is a wide range of products and services you can use.
Sorry, I really can't share any numbers. I guess for us the biggest stumbling blocks were legacy systems and software licensing.