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Not Exactly!

Students need to be told true stories. Not make believe ones. False inspiration is useless. There have been numerous instances in India where people some one like Ankit Fadia has mesmerized students with novelty windows tricks.

And there are many cases, where some one from the alumni visits a engineering college and brags about how he is a manager in just 4-5 years, and how all programmers are under achieving losers. Such talks scare away students from pursuing technically intensive careers and perpetuates same attitudes when they get to their jobs. They continuously undermine/underpay technical jobs and reward managerial jobs.

The net result is misdirected and manipulated students. Sometimes guys who are really good, totally determine to never get into technical roles.

This has led to a huge shortage good engineers in India.



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