It is said that if Mark Zuckerberg was born in India, he’d be a complacent engineer sitting at TCS, cranking out boring code on a diet of chai-sutta, and #livingthedream with Teacher’s Pride on the weekend. Indian electricians earn more -you’ll even find anecdotes on sabziwallas who earn more. On Engineers Day we wonder - why do our engineers suck so much?
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Why do engineers need to enter management? (It’s like Vada being incompatible without Pao in Mumbai). This is the only thing of note that the Management Guru, economist, thinker, and all-around superhero ordained by God (we can’t mention his name because we can’t ‘pony’ up the money in a lawsuit) has ever said.
Unlike McDonalds, setting up an IIT in every state is not going to give you IIT-grade engineers. It might give you great electricians. Our reservation obsession is going to make it worse - you’ll have an army of women/OBCs/Muslims/sports personalities/random poor people who get stamped with the IIT badge without doing IIT level math.
1 Our colleges suck
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We have over 3000 engineering colleges (yes, we counted!). Out of these, 20 are good. Do the math - that means that only 0.5% of Indian engineers are the elite. there’s 80 which are just ‘OK’ - i.e. borderline shitty. And then there’s more coming up everyday.
2 The Someone/3 Idiots Syndrome
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Chetan Bhagat is guilty for creating the delusion of Engineering college being the ‘best years of your life’. 3 Idiots injected coffee into that delusion. And god damn the number of people writing about how they found love and happiness in other random colleges!
3 We still worship them
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How do you find out someone is from IIT? They’ll tell you, repeatedly. If an IITian sets up a company, he’ll mention that on the company description. If an IIT-ian sets up a restaurant, he’ll mention that on his resume.
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Memecrunch
We even have IIT/IIM shaadi. Apparently engineers can only pair with a USB Firewire 3.0 extension.
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We even have IIT/IIM shaadi. Apparently engineers can only pair with a USB Firewire 3.0 extension.
4 Engineering = Manager?
Why do engineers need to enter management? (It’s like Vada being incompatible without Pao in Mumbai). This is the only thing of note that the Management Guru, economist, thinker, and all-around superhero ordained by God (we can’t mention his name because we can’t ‘pony’ up the money in a lawsuit) has ever said.
5 IITs, IITs everywhere
Unlike McDonalds, setting up an IIT in every state is not going to give you IIT-grade engineers. It might give you great electricians. Our reservation obsession is going to make it worse - you’ll have an army of women/OBCs/Muslims/sports personalities/random poor people who get stamped with the IIT badge without doing IIT level math.
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