HYDERABAD: Engineering graduates in the city fall far behind their counterparts from New Delhi, Mumbai and Pune, Bengaluru, Chennai and Kolkata when it comes to programming skills. This startling revelation has come to the fore through a study conducted across 500 colleges in the country. As many as 36,000 engineering students from IT-related branches participated in the study.
Conducted with the help of ‘Automata’ — a machine learning-based assessment of software development skills — the study has revealed that engineering students in Hyderabad are among the ‘least employable’ due to their poor programming abilities. The Automata National Programming Skills Report, published by employability assessment company Aspiring Minds, attributes this to the rote learning approach adopted by engineering colleges and a dearth of good teachers for programming.
