Talent
shortage is acute in the IT and data science ecosystem in India with a survey
claiming that 95 per cent of engineers in the country are not fit to take up
software development jobs.
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 from 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 code that compiles.
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.
“Lack
of programming skills is adversely impacting the IT and data science ecosystem
in India. The world is moving towards introducing programming to
three-year-old! India needs to catch up,” Aspiring Minds CTO and co-founder
Varun Aggarwal said.
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.
Moreover,
programming skills are five times poorer for tier III colleges as compared to
tier 1 colleges. “Sixty nine per cent of candidates from top 100 colleges are
able to write a compilable code versus rest of the colleges where only 31 per
cent are able to write a compilable code,” the report said.
Agencies
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