The pitfalls of core engineering jobs in India and how GATE is a trap
https://thedatavoyage.substack.com/p/the-pitfalls-of-core-engineering
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@themantra108 Thanks!
TIL: Julia also has an instance here! Nice.
@shibaprasad
What is the way forward, though? Not everyone is suited to an IT job either, and firms like TCS may not have good opportunities for career advancement.
@crmsnbleyd I feel like we have largely two types of people, when it comes to the section who is finding it hard to land a job.
1. Who doesn't look at the job market at all. See and evaluate the demand. Introspect whether they're suitable or not. I mostly talked about them here.
2. Another group only looks at the job market and see the skills that are there in demand. They don't evaluate whether they'll be a good fit. (Had written about them here: https://ordinaryanalysis.substack.com/p/knowing-yourself-better)
I feel you need to find a tradeoff between the two. It can be core, non-core, business, sports management whatever.
And for TCS, yes I agree. They don't have a great career development path. But still, I think they're a good starting point for anyone. All my friends, who started from TCS almost 5 years back, have left and joined prestigious MNCs with good pay packages. 3-4x of what they were making at TCS.
@shibaprasad good for them! I always saw TCS as a sort of career dead-end but seems I was pretty wrong.
@shibaprasad @mastodonindians interesting. I'm studying CSE and as one of the few in my class who took CSE because of real interest in computers, I'm also thinking of writing GATE. I'm not interested in higher studies (I can't for another time sit around studying, memorizing things that I feel I won't need in my domain) but for jobs in PSU. Though they pay less, they can give me a feeling of stability. I'm still 50:50 about what I'm going to do once I graduate...
@arunmani @mastodonindians That's okay. You should do it. The good thing about CSE is getting a job is comparatively easier. You can try for PSUs but also in parallel have a job if the former didn't happen at first attempt.
As I said in the post, I feel government jobs should be treated as a plan B, and not plan A. You shouldn't abandon everything in life and only prepare for government jobs. That is the only problem, and IMO a lot of people (atleast from the core sector) do that.
@shibaprasad @mastodonindians great 👍