Investors should first hire a bunch of auditors and financial analysts before engineers to go through their books of accounts. All their books are cooked.
India’s Snapdeal Says the Country Doesn’t Have the Programmers It Needs
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#12I think there's a lot of talent in india. Just need to search deep enough.
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#13click-bait article really. Its like saying Google doesn't have the programmers in US it needs. my points: 1) Snapdeal is in Delhi- Not really a hub of software engineers. Most of them are in south of India and very few people really want to move to Delhi. Also, people from south India almost never like to move to Delhi. Even people from North like to stay in Bangalore because it offers many career opportunities. 2) S…
Its funny you say that because everyone I meet knows flipkart but don't really use them but use snapdeal all too often. From foreign news articles it does seem like flipkart & amazon are the big deal which is why I find it confusing why in india snapdeal is a bigger deal.
I have done it all and my experience as well as of people I know:
we have done all the price comparison and we have found that deals,coupons etc are not worth the time. I just want a site that I can go to and be somewhat sure that I am getting a good price.
Flipkart is fantastic for that. I have never ever found a product on flipkart that is cheaper elsewhere and I can also see my other options for similar products on the same site.
If I am being adventurous, I browse ebay where I get good deals.
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#14All this says to me is Snapdeal doesn't know how to recruit. There are LOTS of companies that are actually finding a sense of validation and satisfaction in not being able to find people - it makes them feel elite and special. It's a sort of non-recruiting that boosts the corporate ego. "We are so awesome that we just can't even find ANYONE as awesome as us."
There's no shortage of programming talent. Only a shortage of recruiting talent.
http://fourlightyears.blogspot.com.au/2015/01/theres-no-shor...
I sent one of the best developers I know to a job interview, he was rejected.
http://fourlightyears.blogspot.com.au/2014/12/i-sent-one-of-...
Employers don't want great developers, they want what they want.
http://fourlightyears.blogspot.com.au/2014/12/employers-dont...
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#15other requirements: 10 year plus experience with Deep Learning and Azure DocumentDB
This somehow reminds me of how a recruiter tried to recruit Guido Van Rossum for a Python job.
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#16I'm a bit out of touch. How are the salaries for software developers in India these days? A few years ago it was pathetic. Could be a factor, though.
Sometimes I really feel like going back to India and starting a development bootcamp in my hometown of Chandigarh. Reading articles like these brings me a few steps closer to actualising that desire.
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#17I'm a bit out of touch. How are the salaries for software developers in India these days? A few years ago it was pathetic. Could be a factor, though. Sometimes I really feel like going back to India and starting a development bootcamp in my hometown of Chandigarh. Reading articles like these brings me a few steps closer to actualising that desire.
I left India 3 years back and from what I gather, salaries at reasonably good places have pretty much doubled and in few places tripled. Am not even talking about Google/Fb.
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#18I'm a bit out of touch. How are the salaries for software developers in India these days? A few years ago it was pathetic. Could be a factor, though. Sometimes I really feel like going back to India and starting a development bootcamp in my hometown of Chandigarh. Reading articles like these brings me a few steps closer to actualising that desire.
I left India 3 years back and from what I gather, salaries at reasonably good places have pretty much doubled and in few places tripled. Am not even talking about Google/Fb.
I agree, but you also have to consider the crazy inflation rate there. Not to mention cost of housing and no decent public infrastructure. You need a lot of money just to get a reasonable standard of living there.
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#1910 years experience with big data and cloud? That doesn't really say much about the quality of a coder.
These arbitrary metrics are pretty pointless IMHO. You can learn what you need to generally in around 1-3 years. Someone with 10 years experience could easily have been doing a job that gave them about 1 year's worth of experience but for 10 years, rather than having 10 years of varied experience.
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#20Snapdeal happens to be looking for people with 10+ years of experience in Big Data/Cloud , while in India 10 years ago, even product companies were hard to find, and I am not sure cloud focussed and big-data companies existed anywhere other than places like SV. In such a case it seems only reasonable that they are finding it hard to find the programmers they need in India.