[Following blog post is my personal view and it's not written to insult anyone/any company. If you find such content/comment in the blog and if you feel that it should be removed please let me know! ]
Every person in India with basic knowledge of computers has an aspiration to become a Software Professional at some point of time in their life. Ever since I used computer for the first time when I was 12, I wanted to do something that is related with Computers and so I did :-) But while dreaming about the highly paid IT Jobs, students do not worry much about their academics, they just want to clear the subjects that are not in their 'To Like' list hence many students perform outstanding in some of the subjects - the ones which they like and they perform average in what they never loved to study!Here is the glitch and a major one!
In India, IT is an ultimate destination for majority of the people and the worst of it is many of the IT Giants choose people by looking at their academic grades and not the skills! I have seen it rather many of you must have seen this - an average (of course the one with 60% through out his educational race) and 0 to below average skills and interest in Computers get recruited in the IT Companies. I bet none of you will oppose this scenario being wrong - because this FACT.
So called Indian IT Giants have ridiculous recruitment process, I've witnessed it once. There is a XYZ Indian IT firm they came to my College to conduct the recruitment drive. The first step is Screening on the basis of Academics - this XYZ company first said that they need students who had consistent 60% through out as well as Math as a compulsory subject in 12th standard or HSC. They got very few people so they further reduced the cut off to 55% with Math compulsory. Again same scenario so they further reduced it to 50% but Math compulsory at 12th standard. This is pathetic - just because you want a guy having math on 10+2 level you are compromising on person's overall performance? This XYZ company recruited even Commerce students who had Math in 10+2 level.
Then comes another scenario, IT companies often hire on large scale when they visit college campuses. I have witnessed an insane recruitment drive where company - ABC recruited more than 300 guys from a single college campus. When I heard the recruitment process experience from students, I was very SAD to know the low quality of process that was followed in the recruitment drive.
I feel the upper management in these IT Giants should analyze all these things from grass root level. Because of such pathetic recruitment strategies Indian IT Companies lack the real passionate students. They just stock the 'Through out 60% guys' and keep on adding the bench strength of the company.
Another hype in these IT companies is - Engineers are equal to the MCA or M.Sc (Computer Science) guys! This is not fair at all. People should be judged not by the qualification but the quality of skills they possess.
In my opinion Indian IT Companies should look for skilled individuals, passionate coders/programmers.
One of the worst part i feel about most of the IT Companies is, they treat freshers as someone who doesn't know anything. They never ask a fresher if he has any skill that they have developed during their school/college time. Companies train freshers on any damn technology and ask them to work on it, irrespective of the fact that even a fresher can code better than an employee (2 yrs of WorkExp) with constant rating of 2/5 in yearly appraisal process.
These IT giants would hire a Civil Engineer with no prior knowledge in computers but they'll never even think of Non Engineering Computer Graduates who are comparatively more productive than an Engineer grad.They would recruit a commerce graduate with knowledge in Excel, powerpoint with consistent 60% through out his educational race. But they wouldn't even entertain a person who has good knowledge on various computer related subjects but do not have First Class grade ever in his life. The guy will be kicked out of the recruitment process.
I feel this is the reason when Recession hits the IT sector, many of the IT employees are sacked.
I will definitely keep on adding my view in this post but before that let me know your views on my post.
Every person in India with basic knowledge of computers has an aspiration to become a Software Professional at some point of time in their life. Ever since I used computer for the first time when I was 12, I wanted to do something that is related with Computers and so I did :-) But while dreaming about the highly paid IT Jobs, students do not worry much about their academics, they just want to clear the subjects that are not in their 'To Like' list hence many students perform outstanding in some of the subjects - the ones which they like and they perform average in what they never loved to study!Here is the glitch and a major one!
In India, IT is an ultimate destination for majority of the people and the worst of it is many of the IT Giants choose people by looking at their academic grades and not the skills! I have seen it rather many of you must have seen this - an average (of course the one with 60% through out his educational race) and 0 to below average skills and interest in Computers get recruited in the IT Companies. I bet none of you will oppose this scenario being wrong - because this FACT.
So called Indian IT Giants have ridiculous recruitment process, I've witnessed it once. There is a XYZ Indian IT firm they came to my College to conduct the recruitment drive. The first step is Screening on the basis of Academics - this XYZ company first said that they need students who had consistent 60% through out as well as Math as a compulsory subject in 12th standard or HSC. They got very few people so they further reduced the cut off to 55% with Math compulsory. Again same scenario so they further reduced it to 50% but Math compulsory at 12th standard. This is pathetic - just because you want a guy having math on 10+2 level you are compromising on person's overall performance? This XYZ company recruited even Commerce students who had Math in 10+2 level.
Then comes another scenario, IT companies often hire on large scale when they visit college campuses. I have witnessed an insane recruitment drive where company - ABC recruited more than 300 guys from a single college campus. When I heard the recruitment process experience from students, I was very SAD to know the low quality of process that was followed in the recruitment drive.
I feel the upper management in these IT Giants should analyze all these things from grass root level. Because of such pathetic recruitment strategies Indian IT Companies lack the real passionate students. They just stock the 'Through out 60% guys' and keep on adding the bench strength of the company.
Another hype in these IT companies is - Engineers are equal to the MCA or M.Sc (Computer Science) guys! This is not fair at all. People should be judged not by the qualification but the quality of skills they possess.
In my opinion Indian IT Companies should look for skilled individuals, passionate coders/programmers.
One of the worst part i feel about most of the IT Companies is, they treat freshers as someone who doesn't know anything. They never ask a fresher if he has any skill that they have developed during their school/college time. Companies train freshers on any damn technology and ask them to work on it, irrespective of the fact that even a fresher can code better than an employee (2 yrs of WorkExp) with constant rating of 2/5 in yearly appraisal process.
These IT giants would hire a Civil Engineer with no prior knowledge in computers but they'll never even think of Non Engineering Computer Graduates who are comparatively more productive than an Engineer grad.They would recruit a commerce graduate with knowledge in Excel, powerpoint with consistent 60% through out his educational race. But they wouldn't even entertain a person who has good knowledge on various computer related subjects but do not have First Class grade ever in his life. The guy will be kicked out of the recruitment process.
I feel this is the reason when Recession hits the IT sector, many of the IT employees are sacked.
I will definitely keep on adding my view in this post but before that let me know your views on my post.
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