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The Indian education system is such a mess that the ones who come out of that system are unusable. I had some folks from IIT (their premier tech institute) app
by ilrwbwrkhv 3y ago
The Indian education system is such a mess that the ones who come out of that system are unusable.
I had some folks from IIT (their premier tech institute) apply for jobs at my companies and they were worse than a random person from a random university in the US.
The trick though is to hire someone from India who has done things outside of the education system and is self taught. It is so hard to think originally in India that anyone who has done it is almost guaranteed to be really good.
- kelipso 3y agoLol. I don't know why this is such a meme in hacker news. I would be highly skeptical of anyone (from anywhere) who doesn't have a degree. Trying to make a rule from some one in a million type person is such a misguided way to go about things.
- atonse 3y agoBut it is equally silly to make a blanket statement like yours about people that don’t have degrees. Why not treat a degree as one signal, as one datapoint among others? It can be a stronger signal in certain circumstances of course, but still just one signal.
- huytersd 3y agoIt depends. Something like 50% of the $1 billion startups in India are started by IIT alumni.
- ilrwbwrkhv 3y agoThe bar is low there. Also many are fake. None of them can survive even against Chinese startups (look at the mobile phone market for example), forget American.
- huytersd 3y agoIt’s hard for many billion companies to be fake. Do you have any sources for your claims?
- ilrwbwrkhv 3y agoByju's to begin with. Adani was another recent one. And the ones which aren't fraudulent most are copycats with no innovation. Flipkart etc.
- huytersd 3y agoByju’s is downsizing, it doesn’t mean they’re “fake”. Is Meta fake by that metric? Adani is already back to where they were stock wise since Hindenburg. Flipkart literally has tens of millions of customers.
- ilrwbwrkhv 3y agoAdani literally does stock manipulation and are friends with the government. Byju's will shutdown because of fraud, they are not downsizing. Flipkart is a literal copycat. It is a shame because India has a lot of talented people but the whole education system and cultural aspects need to change drastically to even compete with China, forget rest of the world.
- huytersd 3y agoBeing a copycat is how you kickstart your ecosystem. Everything in China was and for the most part is a copycat of western companies.
- ilrwbwrkhv 3y agoChina definitely does it better than India. That's my whole point. The Indian education system and culture around business is really poor.
- piuantiderp 3y agoCare to elaborate? Not saying you are wrong, I am interested in how does the "unusability" manifest?