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First of all an undergrad in India is naive and needs good mentoring. That's missing and no one cares to solve this problem! I think we have to blame the India
by pajju 14y ago
First of all an undergrad in India is naive and needs good mentoring. That's missing and no one cares to solve this problem!
I think we have to blame the Indian education system largely for this.
The root cause is - The quality of the system is poor and is broken. But it should only get better over-time and its happening.
Indian Schooling system is not ready to bring out Quality Engineers. It doesn't encourage Creative thinking and promote an intellectual environment.
There are many IT companies that fill this void by giving 6months intensive training because they know the education system.
Another social-cultural reason being - Indians are spoon feed-ed right from birth. They aren't independent much and depend on schooling more. This promotes a conservative mindset.
But this norm will gradually change for the better, I'm already seeing today's young undergrads getting involved in Startup space by asking internships and are doing some really great work!
In my startup, we have given internship projects to undergrads but we never value their paper degrees or schooling. We only value their github page, OSS work and appreciate self-taught programmers.