Tuesday, February 21, 2006
Does where you study reflects your self?
In my last post I quetioned about the selection criteria used by many of the Silicon Valley companies (in general many of the tech companies). I don't say the selection process is wrong but what I say is, it is not a written proof that all from the great colleges are highly intelligent and others from ordinary colleges are of no use.
In my four and half years of experience, though I haven't seen much people from the top US Universities or the IITs (India Institute of Technology), I have seen many people from really good engineering colleges and universities who don't know to code a sequence of statements easily, quickly and correctly.
I experienced the same thing in my colleges. The girls in my class have a very very powerful RAM memory. In the sense, what ever goes into their brain comes out fluently in FIFO (First In First Out) order. Yes, of course it is a talent. But do we require that kind of a talent in our industry with so much hype??? And even if some companies recruit them for the sake of their marks and colleges then it will not take much time for them to get the real truth. Even then, the HR managers or project managers who recruit them don't how these people are working. Only people like us know how they work. Most of the time they get the work done with the help of somebody else.
Coming back to my question, If you have a degree from a lesser known college or with lesser marks then does it mean that you don't have enough brains and make you not eligible for applying to these companies ? I completely disagree with this one. I really wanted to stand as an example for this one. May be I will definitely get one opportunity to prove that point.
Does anybody else agrees to my point?
I really want to work for a company like WorkDay not for what they are working on but for the people who are working on. My dream will come true someday.
In my four and half years of experience, though I haven't seen much people from the top US Universities or the IITs (India Institute of Technology), I have seen many people from really good engineering colleges and universities who don't know to code a sequence of statements easily, quickly and correctly.
I experienced the same thing in my colleges. The girls in my class have a very very powerful RAM memory. In the sense, what ever goes into their brain comes out fluently in FIFO (First In First Out) order. Yes, of course it is a talent. But do we require that kind of a talent in our industry with so much hype??? And even if some companies recruit them for the sake of their marks and colleges then it will not take much time for them to get the real truth. Even then, the HR managers or project managers who recruit them don't how these people are working. Only people like us know how they work. Most of the time they get the work done with the help of somebody else.
Coming back to my question, If you have a degree from a lesser known college or with lesser marks then does it mean that you don't have enough brains and make you not eligible for applying to these companies ? I completely disagree with this one. I really wanted to stand as an example for this one. May be I will definitely get one opportunity to prove that point.
Does anybody else agrees to my point?
I really want to work for a company like WorkDay not for what they are working on but for the people who are working on. My dream will come true someday.
