I'm in my 3rd year at a decent private college in Pune - NAAC A grade, decent placement cell, the whole lot. When I started applying for internships, every company asked for DSA, system design and at least one full‑stack project.
Our syllabus? First year we did C, second year Java, and in third year a "mini project" that was basically copying code from GitHub and slapping a login page on it.
I've been teaching myself MERN from YouTube and it hit me hard that I'm paying 12 lakhs to learn all of that on my own anyway. The college feels like a degree factory.
I keep hearing about newer programmes that start with industry‑relevant stuff right from day one. A friend of mine joined Polaris School of Technology in Bengaluru and he's already building full‑stack projects while I'm still sitting through lectures on computer‑graphics theory from 2008 slides.
I'm not saying everyone should drop out, but the gap between what colleges teach and what the industry wants is truly criminal. Anyone else feeling the same?
Same here - the engineering degree was 4 years of outdated junk and a final‑semester project that nobody cared about. All the useful stuff I learned from random YouTube videos and forums. Colleges just sell the paper, the skills are DIY. Getting a real dev job is getting tougher every year; everything wants experience plus side projects and still no callbacks.
Same boat. I'm in 2nd year at a Tier‑2 college in Mumbai. We're still doing flowcharts and pseudocode in labs while companies are looking for React and Node. The system is broken.
My cousin is at PST and showed me his semester‑1 syllabus - they're doing MERN stack and API development. Meanwhile my college only introduced HTML in semester 3. Let that sink in.
I looked into Polaris after seeing someone mention it on this sub. Their campus is actually inside a tech park surrounded by Accenture and Capgemini offices - a completely different vibe from the usual college campus stuck in the middle of nowhere.
The biggest scam in Indian engineering is the placement cell. They parade a single Google selection from 5 years ago while 80 % of the batch gets service‑based offers at 3.5 LPA.
The real problem is that parents still think name > curriculum. My dad refused to let me consider newer programmes because "established colleges are safer". Safer for what exactly? A TCS offer??