India’s Snapdeal Says the Country Doesn’t Have the Programmers It Needs • Hacker News Board

Re: India’s Snapdeal Says the Country Doesn’t Have the Programmers It Needs

#41

Post by tamaatar » Fri, May 29, 2015, 3:06 PM UTC

brianbreslin wrote: post #39

tamaatar wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This I can certainly relate to. In India wherever you go in the IT industry you are expected to forget about your life,family and just focus on minting money for your employer and for Shitty pay. I have 10 years experience in the industry and I have worked for bodyshops,niche hip companies and for awesome startup(s). In all of them,shamelessly expecting you to work extra hours, sometime 15+ is a norm. And when it com…

what is a bodyshop? in the united states a body shop is where they repair cars

Ah it just means one of those huge outsourcing companies. Infosys,Wipro,TCS.

Re: India’s Snapdeal Says the Country Doesn’t Have the Programmers It Needs

#42

Post by _ati » Fri, May 29, 2015, 3:47 PM UTC

gandharv90 wrote: post #30

andrewstuart wrote: post #14

All 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…

Well they are not talking about developer. They are talking about technology specialist, which India severely lack. One of the reason is where in India would you study enough to become a specialist. You will have to go to a foreign University and hence India will have to hire people from outside India.

Also I dont think someone needs to study in a university to become a specialist. Passion I think is more important than formal university education

Re: India’s Snapdeal Says the Country Doesn’t Have the Programmers It Needs

#43

Post by ouroborosidiots » Fri, May 29, 2015, 8:50 PM UTC

gnufied wrote: post #23

ouroborosidiots wrote: post #21

TLDR; What exactly do they expect if they openly advertise "B.Tech from premier institutes. IIT’s, REC’s, BITS, etc" as a job requirement for almost all of their engineering roles? https://careers.snapdeal.com/careersection/ex/jobdetail.ftl I am guessing, this is some kind of cheap publicity stunt.

I would have partly agreed with Snapdeal since finding good engineer has always been hard. But this filtering by IITs/NITs/BITs shows - how out of touch they are. I know some of the most brilliant programmers in Bangalore/Pune and they are not from these "premier institutes". In fact, being from NIT Trichy myself, I have concluded that - most engineers from these colleges are risk averse and likely stick to a well tr…

Anecdotally speaking most of my good IIT/NIT/BITs folks moved out of the country/went for MBAs after graduation.

The average ones got hired locally by multinationals like EBay / Amazon / Google etc..

So the ones who were actually applying to companies like Snapdeal etc.. were the 4 point someones who really have nothing but an "IIT degree" on their Resume.

I interviewed a couple of those for our startup. Honestly speaking, we found more interesting people via Employee referrals - even if they didn't graduate from these universities.