Only 5.5% of Indian Engineers Qualified in Basic Programming: Report
- Indian tech market size reached $254 billion in FY24, growing 3.8% YoY
- Mere 2.5% of Indian engineers possess AI skills, 5.5% qualified in basic programming
- 86% of Indian businesses actively reskilling IT workers to meet skills gap
- AI/ML engineer salaries range from Rs. 8.2 LPA to Rs. 43 LPA in GCCs
- Data engineering, product management, and DevOps roles see 10-12% salary growth
Source: Business Today
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This is what happens when college forces students to write even html code on paper . 30% of students in my class don't even have laptop but have iphone
You would be surprised online exams do not provide and editors too. They just want simple text input. And marks are only awarded if the examiner is able to compile and get correct answer. No partial marking.
many good programmers are unemployed because they are blindly assumed to be a part of the remaining 94.5% by employers.
That's just the difference between good coders and good engineers. You have to be able to come up with solutions, communicate well, work in teams and be able to showcase your skills.
What % of engineers are IT/CS?
Engineering colleges are increased over the period but the standards are poor, any student with poor knowledge of engineering can get an engineering degree from a below standard colleges and counted in that 94.5%. So numbers will be meaningful only with proper context.
The percentage of engineers qualified in basic programming since I graduated
Well,
- not all have carriculam related to programming...
- u may not discuss about logic /Data structure etc. to a non IT /CS engineer..
The last point DE, PM and DevOps what about SDE (Software Development Engineer) no prediction about growth over there?
This is quite sad actually