Re: IT Industry and Employability of Technical Graduates Quote:
Originally Posted by ampere Now its also be true that IQ of all students across a Tier1 college is not the same. Many "good" students chose not to go to a Tier-1 college just because they dont get a CS related stream. So the student coming into such branches may not that smart (Sorry to say this). The student may have joined the Tier1 just to get the pedigree connection to the institute. So the IQ assumption (that all students from a Tier1 have good IQ) goes out of the window. This is even more acute for the masters program in such Tier1 colleges. |
Yup, you nailed it. I wonder why lot of folks don't get this.
There is a huge swathe of people who get into wrong courses in tier-1/2 colleges just to improve their pedigree and placement chances, even though they have no interest in the course. I have seen in this even in the 80s when I was choosing my college. I have had classmates who picked chemical engineering in KREC (now NITK) just for the pedigree. I picked electronics in a 4th tier college because it was the field of my interest. BTW, I had a business partner for 16 years (and boss for 6 years before that) who is from IIT-KGP. He and IITian friends used to tell me that bottom scraping in IITs is a bad idea. They said, if you can't get top 10% from IIT, go for top 10% of REC, after that top 10% of the next tier college. If you don't stick to this thumbrule, you will get people who joined there for the wrong reasons.
And there is another aspect that colleges are assigned based on academic score, which is no indication of aptitude/talent of the student.
Therefore, I have stopped getting influenced by their college and even the degree. Instead, I pay more attention to their 10th and 12th grade math scores, which gives a better baseline. Then I look at what they have done beyond the academics. Do they have github projects, and what is the quality of those projects, are they original works, etc. There are lots of hints one can pick from looking at these activities about the true aptitude of the candidate. Curiosity and the ability to self-learn is the most important criteria I look for.
Of course, these are hard to do when you hire 100s and 1000s of freshers. That is why large employers simply apply college and marks as filters. And I am very thankful to them for it.  So many good candidates get filtered out and I am able pick the gems from them.
And it also works out for large employers since no one really needs all their hires to be stars. Even if 5% of their hires turn out be great, their requirements will be met. I have described this concept earlier, so I won't rehash it.
Last edited by Samurai : 16th June 2024 at 10:27.
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