On Saturday 04 Nov 2006 6:24 pm, Dave Long wrote: > > What makes a programmer "bad" or "average"? > > > > ... Programming skills probably fall under a bell curve > > True, but as with football, only people on the upper tail of that curve > do it for a living. > ( ...snip... ) > where the average for the bell-curve as a whole is below "bad", and the > average for teams which silklisters put together is, we hope, well > above "good".
Well this thread seems to refer to the fact that recruitment of programmers from India seems to be anyone who falls within that bell curve and not a specific area of it. In an ideal world, only people with aptitude sould be selected. But there is more demand for coders and there are more job offers than the system of education can cope with.. besides - computers as such are too "young" for many Indians to even know what they are heading for when they see $$$ appended to the words "software engineer" It appears that this is where we're at - as of now. shiv
