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This article has been circulating on a few sites recently, which has as its headline:

95% engineers in India unfit for software development jobs, claims report

With the claim:

According to a study by employability assessment company Aspiring Minds, only 4.77% candidates can write the correct logic for a programme -- a minimum requirement for any programming job.

and:

"Sixty nine per cent of candidates from top 100 colleges are able to write a compilable code versus rest of the colleges where only 31% are able to write a compilable code," the report said.

It seems provocative but it is getting a fair number of reposts around the Internet.

Is that claim true? Or is there any corroborating evidence somewhere? Or have they misrepresented information in such a way to drive this claim?

enderland
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    From my experience? 95% of engineers from _everywhere_ are unfit for software development jobs - be it India, USA, Brazil, whatever. Most of the people that manage to get a engineer diploma can't program at all. Having good developers is somewhat of a privilege... – T. Sar Apr 20 '17 at 20:20
  • Looks like they do this yearly for some clicks! http://www.aspiringminds.com/news/aspiring-minds-releases-5th-national-employability-report-engineers also when was every engineer into software development, when was every job world wide available to a citizen from any other country? – daniel Apr 20 '17 at 20:36
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    The study was done on, "36,000 engineering students form [sic] IT related branches." These are not engineers, and aren't necessarily coders. You need to correctly restate their claims in your question. – BobTheAverage Apr 20 '17 at 21:33
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    @BobTheAverage If the article misstates the results of the study, you should explain that in an answer (with citations), not in a comment. – Brythan Apr 21 '17 at 02:48
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    To add to what @TSar wrote, [Why Can't Programmers.. Program?](https://blog.codinghorror.com/why-cant-programmers-program/) – David Hammen Apr 21 '17 at 05:04
  • There's a big difference between correct logic and correct syntax (the latter being "compilable code" in more technical terms) – user5341 Apr 21 '17 at 13:46
  • With all the garbage being posted these days, someone should call the sanitation engineers to haul it away. – Ben Voigt Apr 23 '17 at 03:49
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    That article is so full of BS that I don't even know where to begin. "over 2/3 could not even write code that compiles" Yeah, right, that is a *fantastic* criteria to judge if a person is suitable for a software development job. I have about 10 years of experience, and still cannot guarantee that my code will compile in the 1st attempt, but hey, that is not exactly my priority when I write code. I focus more on the important things like getting the design right, because compilation is ... uhm, you know ... what compiler does, and I know how to fix compilation errors. – Masked Man Apr 23 '17 at 16:23
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    I also love how the article takes "ability to write compilable code" as a criterion for "doing a software development *job*". The author clearly has no idea what he is talking about if he doesn't know the difference between developing software and doing a software development *job* (even if I accept that "writing compilable code" is a valid criterion for judging "develop software" ability). – Masked Man Apr 23 '17 at 16:27
  • Lots of comments about this, not very many answers... ;-) – enderland Apr 25 '17 at 17:55
  • A friend told me that his company hired an expert contractor to fix uncompilable c++ code. After 3 months he finished the task and left. When the compiled code was run, it didn't work as expected. It turned out, he commented out the code that causing compile error. – Jules May 03 '17 at 00:34

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