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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 11 2017, @08:15PM
Building bridges has been done quite frequently and rather ubiquitously to supposse only a small % of human can design and build one (obviously, non St. Francisco size, I mean).
Something alike happens with destilation and spirituous beverages.