Thursday, April 23, 2026

95% Of Indian "Engineers" Unfit To Program

I've seen a lot of sites posting memes about this so I though I would provide a link to the 2017 article. From India's Economic Times: "95% engineers in India unfit for software development jobs: Report." And this excerpt:

    According to a study by employability assessment company Aspiring Minds, only 4.77 per cent 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 ...

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

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    The employability gap can be attributed to rote learning based approaches rather than actually writing programmes on a computer for different problems. Also, there is a dearth of good teachers for programming, since most good programmers get jobs in industry at good salaries, the study said.

Unmentioned is that cheating in school is endemic throughout India

2 comments:

  1. "My good diploma give me jobs/
    "Although, I didn't study/
    "I simply got this from a friend/
    "As birthday gift from buddy!"

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