Women have a better coding quotient than men, but require a platform for support in order to boost their confidence and practical skills.
BENGALURU: A majority of women face challenges in landing tech jobs due to a lack of hands-on experience for coding (40%) and are low on confidence (33%), according to a survey by BridgeLabz Solutions, an IP-driven incubation lab aimed at nurturing engineering talent and ideas in the emerging technology space. These figures stood at 38% and 31% for men.
Amongst the participants, fewer women (27%) than men (31%) stated that they aren’t well versed with the emerging tech platforms and languages which are required to crack the interviews and tests. This is indicative of the fact that more women than men have the knowledge but still lack the practical experience needed to execute it.
This was further corroborated by the findings of BridgeLabz’s Coding Café test conducted on over 100K+ engineers from 17 cities pan-India. Here, with women securing 4%+ higher than the men’s scores, it was revealed that they have a better coding quotient than men, but require a platform for support in order to boost their confidence and practical skills.
The survey was conducted to compare the problems faced by women and men while looking for a job, and was conducted on 2300+ participants from cities across India, constituting engineers who graduated in 2019 or earlier, of which 58% were male and 42% were female. The participants were mainly from Bengaluru, Pune, Hyderabad and Mumbai, as well as cities such as Delhi, Coimbatore, Chennai, Kolkata, Jaipur, and Aurangabad, amongst others. Experiential learning is the key to unlocking the true potential of engineering talent in the country. “The root cause of the challenges amongst engineering talent while trying to secure a job is that the engineering syllabus across traditional institutions is most often theory-oriented and/or outdated. Additionally, even if they introduce emerging technologies as per syllabus, the major solution lies in revamping the syllabus as per industry requirements, in a manner that makes it dynamic with the changing tech trends. Our findings have revealed that women, in particular, are equipped with the right knowledge for the field, but are in need of more exposure to the practical side of things in order to hone their abilities,” Narayan Mahadevan, founder, BridgeLabz, told ET.
Experiential learning is the key to unlocking the true potential of engineering talent in the country, not only in making them employable but to convert them into active contributors from day one on the job, he added.
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Since its inception in 2016, BridgeLabz has succeeded in training over 1100+ skilled engineers to make them employable through its Maker Program. It has placed these engineers at partner companies such as ThoughtWorks, BookMyShow, Urban Ladder, Yatra, Fullerton, and Capgemini, which are part of its network of 200+ top companies in the country. By the end of FY20-21, it is aiming to achieve its target of skilling and placing 2500 engineers in top technology companies.
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