http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-08-20/india-nabs-nearly-two-thirds-of-u-s-h-1b-visas.html
true. the current global slump can only be solved industrially. we need another industrial revolution.
Based on my limited experience of hiring the qualification of many people from India sound impressive or comparable to something in Canada yet when given a skill test they fall very short of other candidates. This could just be a bad sample…The feeling I get from reading this thread is some schools in India are great and others are horrible.
The feeling you get is right…
to give you an example, a guy from my college became the CEO of Microsoft yesterday. But majority of my batch mates are still sitting without a job like me. Its just what it is. Terrible market, overinvestment in the IT industry and there definitely has been a deterioration of the education system. and as far schools are concerned, you need to understand that despite the school, there are going to be a lot of statistical variation in the student aptitude. Indian education rewards rote learning and butt kissing. And if you pick up the most meritorious students without an aptitude check, they definitely will fall short.
That overinvestment in IT was actually a good move. There are a lot of things indirectly related to IT that will come to India because of the tech infrastructure already present. This is one -
http://www.forbes.com/2010/11/05/google-facebook-computing-technology-data.html.
We were always going to loose the manufacturing race to china and other south east asian countries.
has your mass recruiter come yet?
Every one of the mass recruiters came to our college. TCS, Wipro, IBM, Infosys…
Out of your whole batch how many are still jobless? Not your branch…the entire 2010-14 batch…
I like how in India students are a “batch.” Fantastic.
I’ll take two batches of engineers, please.
over 600 or so are completely jobless. If you don’t include MRCs, it’ll be way over a thousand. And my college has previously had a record of 100% placement of everyone whose eligible.
you couldn’t afford it 
What’s your batch strength? That’s seriously fked up…usually every year one mass recruiter will take upwards of 500 students.
If this year your college get’s no mass recruiter i can see how the numbers are going to get skewed.
At the rates you quoted, I could have my own personal engineering team. What I’d do with that, I don’t know.
It must almost be nice to live in such a low cost place yet have the education and English skills to work for those located in higher paying places. Now I also see why guys come over here, hammer away for 10 years then head home. They’re probably sitting on enough cash to retire no problem.
That said, I find most stay, so I’m guessing the quality of life doesn’t really stack up the same.
What are they everywhere else? * confused emoticon *.
Yup, you can easily work for ten years in the west,come back and just chill.
Previously the quality of life wasn’t the same, the cities weren’t developed enough bar maybe Delhi and Mumbai. Bangalore was still a retirement home for military general’s, Pune was still a college town…Chennai, Chandigargh etc weren’t even in the picture.
For this generation, there are good quality schools and colleges. Private player’s now build good hospital’s filled with good quality doctor’s, they build communities that generate their own electricity and have their own amenities within city limits, urban infrastructure is being built.
The emigration patterns of Indian’s and Chinese should be interesting in the next two decades.
Class, cohort, fellow students.
Batch is not a word used to refer to people in the west, it’s a word generally used to refer to baked goods. Like “I’m making a batch of cookies.”
He went to an Indian college?
yup. Manipal Institute of technology. The same one I’m graduating from this may.
the batch strength is ~1800. Most mrcs took less than a hundred. Only tcs took more. The industry is really really stagnated right now.
two batches in most colleges today would be ~5000 students. That would cost you ~25 million USD. …and thanks for the offer. I’ll accept my compensation in USD please. 