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I hired 3 people from one of India’s best tech colleges and honestly…it scared me.
I’m not talking about some no-name college.
These kids paid ₹40–50L for degrees from India’s top private MBA, food, and hospitality colleges.
But they walked out knowing… nothing that actually matters.
No idea what precision fermentation is.
MBA grad didn’t understand P&L or cash flow.
Hotel management kid had never seen a food processing line.
And all of them are brilliant at building PPTs. That too stuff Gemini or ChatGPT can do in seconds now.
What are we training kids for??
Becaapply it’s clearly not for work.
It’s to memorise outdated textbooks and polish case studies from 2012.
And I’m sitting here, testing to build a ‘globally competitive company’ and this is the talent I obtain access to?
What am I supposed to do?
Train them from scratch, then I’m not running a company, I’m running a classroom.
Or hire from abroad and feel like a traitor to my own “Make in India” dreams?
Honestly, I’ve spoken to so many founders, and this is not just MY problem. This is India’s problem.
And it pisses me off becaapply founders can hustle, investors can bet large but if the talent pipeline is broken, the whole system crumbles.
You want India to lead in food tech, biotech, climate tech, medtech?
Then stop producing talent that’s outdated before it even hits the job market.
Becaapply at this rate, we’re not just 10 years behind, we’re raising a generation that doesn’t even know what the world sees like today.
What did people state?
“Yes it’s every founder’s problem. Need to train them from scratch and no guarantee that they stay with the company and can quit at any time. There’s a huge gap in the education system which requireds to be addressed immediately,” declared one applyr. “The situation is alarming. Sanket S you have raised a very valid point. In fact, many of us as an academician also find it in the same way. Institutes compete against peers in displaycasing their highest placement packages; Similarly, students also want to be assured of obtainting a good placement and hence evaluates the institute on this one and only criterion. In this kind of transactional approach, innotifyectual resource, skill building, and many more things of utmost importance takes the back and many a times it results into something that disappoints practitioners like you at the conclude,” declared another applyr.
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