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posted by on Thursday May 11 2017, @04:50AM   Printer-friendly
from the skill-upgrade-complete dept.

Only 36% of software engineers in India can write compilable code based on measurements by an automated tool that is used across the world, the Indian skills assessment company Aspiring Minds says in a report.

The report [PDF] is based on a sample of 36,800 from more than 500 colleges across India.

Aspiring Minds said it used the automated tool Automata which is a 60-minute test taken in a compiler integrated environment and rates candidates on programming ability, programming practices, run-time complexity and test case coverage.

It uses advanced artificial intelligence technology to automatically grade programming skills.

"We find that out of the two problems given per candidate, only 14% engineers are able to write compilable codes for both and only 22% write compilable code for exactly one problem," the study said.

It further found that of the test subjects only 14.67% were employable by an IT services company.

When it came to writing fully functional code using the best practices for efficiency and writing, only 2.21% of the engineers studied made the grade.

The study, conducted in India by an Indian firm, had no comparisons with other populations.


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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by turgid on Thursday May 11 2017, @04:04PM

    by turgid (4318) Subscriber Badge on Thursday May 11 2017, @04:04PM (#508147) Journal

    Seriously, all word processors come with spelling and grammar error checkers...

    Here's a war story. I worked for Xerox in software and they transferred us to HCL where I stayed 5 months before I found a new job.

    When training my replacement (and feeding him Christmas dinner) I got to hear what the company was really like.

    You think Western PHBs are bad? Just the same in India. Wilfully ignorant of technical issues in order to be able to bully the staff against unreasonable goals and expectations.

    You think the Indian engineers are bad? No, just young and inexperienced and at the mercy of some very ruthless PHBs.

    The contracts these companies work to are pretty poor. I heard a tale of a customer agreeing to buy some software. They forgot to specify that it should compile and run. They put a few graduates in a room for a week and churned out 6k lines of something a bit like C. It wasn't compilable. The customer signed it off and paid for it.

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