[Ilugc] Inputs solicited for a story
- From: suraj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Suraj Kumar)
- Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 19:33:31 +0530
On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 12:10 PM, Karthikeyan A K <mindaslab at gmail.com>wrote:
I haven't seen a non junk certificated candidate yet. But there should
be some people who are worth to pay for the certification they have got.
But I haven't seen one. That's a huge disappointment.
As a general rule, I'd think that certifications around "functional skills"
may be of value to the Industry (ex: PCI compliance, ITIL, etc.,). I've
seen some service companies value such certification. A rare exception:
Amazon Bangalore hired one PCI guy (but he was a pure PCI "product manager"
- not a techie with PCI-too certification) in order to build Flexible
Payments Service.
http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/opinion/columns/rasheeda-bhagat/decoding-zohos-success/article4379158.ece
I am tempted to say "One swallow does not a summer make, nor one fine
day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a
person entirely happy." But then again, you do have the chance to
posit Zoho as the black swan.
Don't get what you say. I am quiet weak in deciphering old English.
What he means to say is Zoho turned things upside down by hiring rural folk
and trains them in-house on PHP/MySQL/etc.,. It challenges the fundamental
mindset that "engineering graduates (starting from IIT and _below_) are
better" - but, IMO, this changing (Zoho) trend is already widespread. I run
a business which finds raw talent (people with computer programming / open
source inclination) and incubates them by providing inspiration / guidance
and infrastructure (specifically free access to AWS). When they have built
something worthwhile to be showcased, we place them at internet-tech
companies (like InMobi, Flipkart, etc.,). Some of these companies have
specifically asked us to NOT go to engineering colleges because they have,
out of experience, found better quality Arts & Science graduates! We
instead tell these companies to keep their mind open and hire only those
who pass their (usually very tough and long) technical interviews.
Cheers,
-Suraj
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