No Jobs for SLIIT Students ?

unfortunately SLIIT has become more like a glorified tuition class rather than an IT university, this is a issue that seriously should be addressed by the administration.

i own a small IT company and employ several IT professionals but only employ 5 programmers and all the other being researchers and technical writers all related to IT of course and from my experience of hiring IT professionals SLIIT does not fair well when compared to other private and even government IT institutes and unis, in fact most of our best employees are from University of Colombo and Moratuwa and the other notables are from APIIT, so SLIIT should really improve there standards and make sure they prove the students more hands on practical knowledge.

Hmmm… Degree is just a paper that makes people recognize you. Talent is the only thing which makes you a MAN.

i have no intention of providing my company details and it is not cuss i am in anyway ashamed of the company but i simply refuse to get into public debate with my company details attached to it.

first of all u r very naive to think that IT is only programming and 5 programmers are more than enough for a medium sized company, this is because we do not attest to the normal SL ideology of hiring 25 ppl to do the work of 5, ppl here work hard and get paid for it

since u mentioned low salaries fyi our starting salary in 300USD for the 6 month probation period and after that its 500USD and increases 5 to 10% based on the permanence, so it is far better that most other IT companies

your other point also was quite funny as i have personally interviewed 10 sliit grads, and all 10 of them said they are willing to work for 200USD a month, but they werent good enough and apart from one all the others scored less than 60 in your English aptitude test and a further 2 addimited to us that they copied a project

first of all fk , your constructive criticism idea stinks , you have concluded that SLIIT is glorified tuition class rather than an IT university by interviewing 10 SLIIT grads , which is less than 0.1% of students that graduate from SLIIT. Starting salary of 300USD is about the average salary paid by most IT companies , so yours is no better. Since your not giving details about your company we have no way of verifying that as well. ( how convenient ) , As the author mentioned in the article about 1000 graduate from SLIIT every year and not all of them are very competent. And since the 10 that came your way agreed to work for 200USD they cant be the most competent of the lot. And the very fact that the not competent people came your way speaks a great deal about your company.

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I’ll take it as you have never worked in a large organization

well sam at least you agree on that SLIIT students are technically competent.As for the attitude thing don’t you think its something personnel and it has nothing to do with the institute. Well at least thats how I see it.

Exactly! Your Attitude Depend on your environment. And your statement about those who prefer to work in large organizations sounds exactly like how those western developers talk about Asian developers. Only thing it shows is that you don’t know jack about the challenges that people face in a large organization and you have some personal problem against those who prefer to work in large organizations instead of small companies. Take a look at your own attitude before you teach us about attitude.

If you want to see how ground to earth some of the people produced by government universities why don’t you google for BIT@MRT and you will find Chanux’s blog and read the replies there.

I was a SLIIT student now a SLIIT graduate working for a large organization. I have been programming since I am 11 years old and I consider my self as better developer than most people in my age because of my experience and accomplishments. And I prefer working for large organizations various reasons. I am not going to list those reasons here because that will make this post tool long. And I know plenty of brilliant people (not only developers) who prefer to work in large organizations because of the same reasons.

If you work in or run a small organization why don’t you do this simple experiment? When you interview a guy next time ask them which company they preferred to work for first. And check if that is a large company or a small company. And you can ask why they prefer that. You will get the picture.

If you call us “programming chicken in a programming cubicle” that only show how sad your attitude is. And you better not put any information that might expose your identity, because if I were you I don’t want to be known for making such a statement in public.

Dear all,
I went through all the comments above.
What I got from there is, sam still havn’t seen the real SLIIT people. Caz, when SLIIT students complete there degree, all the largest IT companies are wating for them and take all the bright students for their companies.
Most important difference between the SLIIT students and the other students (From gov. uni or other institutes) is, SLIIT students have all the required knowledge about the SW development A to Z. They are bright not only for the programming but also for all the related activities to the SW development. They can easily involove in any of the phase in the SW development without having any problem.

Sam
Sometimes your argivement may be correct for the students who you met. But I think you have never met a student who has got through SLIIT well. In any institute there are students who follow the course only to have the degree, not to get the right and complete knowledge. But there are students who have completed the degree well. Try to find such one student and assign that student what ever work and see who is best? Then you ll understand how SLIIT ppl are working?

Dear All;

i ve gone through all the posts…..and I m just asking the the people those who don’t want to recruit SLIIT grads just to find about what I m writing below…
Who is the chief Analyst Programmer of SAP implementation in CBSL.
Who are the “QA Leads” of CSE, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Botswana, USA (AMEx, ICAP) stock Exchanges?
Senior Business Analyst CSE ?
How many (SLIIT) tech-leads are there in Virtusa..?
How many (SLIIT) Software Engineers / QA Leads there in Dialog Telecom?
How many (SLIIT) QA-leads are there in Virtusa..?
The team behind the Development / Deployment of MGTs (One of the leading Fabric Manufacturer who provide materials for 90% of the sri lankan garments) ERP?
The team who interconnect 240 Hayleys Consumer showrooms island wide and deploy the sales management system… (US$1.2M project) The entire team consists of SLIIT grads)
The team behind the Development of the World’s No1 Activated Carbon /Charcoal Manufacturer’s ERP. (US$4-8 M Project)(90% from of the team is from SLIIT and lead by a SLIIT grad.)
Who is heading the Corporate IT of LOLC?
Who heads the E business solutions unit of Sri Lanka’s Largest business conglomerate?
How many SLIIT software engineers are there in the British Telecom UK?
How many SLIIT software engineers are there in the Motorrolla AUS?
How many SLIIT students have formed their own companies and doing well ?
We have a well qualified grad from SLIIT who is the manager of one of the Leading banks in SL as well

Well I m asking all the sliit allergic people to find more facts about SLIIT grads before u acts..!!!…
I m from the 1st Batch of SLIIT and for last 5 Years we know where we stands in the Industry, the perceptions are changing a lot.. thanks to the buddies who are doing really well …
Soo guys don’t worry about those comments..i ve done many presentations for Undergrads from Mora, Colombo and Kelaniya and many undergrads have done projects under me fro Mora, Col,. so I know exactly where we stands…. It’s true that there are issues ..but not as many as they were thinking… For last 5 years.. SLIIT grads have spread across the country in all the IT companies… depts…etc..so don’t worry about those small scale organizations… and their comments…and experiences…BTW you cannot expect a fresh grad to be very thorough with the whole SDLC and in practical scenarios in large scale projects it’s very difficult to stick to the original plan…and follow exactly the same as we learnt in theory…if some one has wasted his / her time with the developers… then I must say it’s his or her inability to manage the HR.. in IT projects.. During my undergrad period we work for free sometimes, mainly to gain exposure..and in IIT even I know they work for very low salaries during their placement year.. since the number of heads at SLIIT is way too high it’s unlikely to get a placement year for all the students.. but still student should be more vigilant about what they do and should managed to gain the max during their learning period..so I m not seeing any problem with asking for low salaries during the early stages… but I think SLIIT career guidance unit is a dead unit, if they have done a proper job this kind of communication threads won’t be here in the http://WWW. But it doesn’t mean that all these comments made by SLIIT allergic people are correct.

Programming Chicken in a Programming Cubicle ?
— Well… thats incorrect..if that is the case non of the sliit student become tech leads ..or design architects..or Business Analysts… anyway there has to be programming chickens as well…so sliit’s duty is to full fill the market requirements… so i think they ve done an excellent job to fill up the job market…

Oops I came back to see a long long conversation here. SLIIT has produced morons. Yes… because it is on earth and earth has lot of morons.

SIIT has produced lot of great ppl too. Simply because there are great ppl on earth.

If anyone have problems with SLIIT start calling it SLUT & sleep well ever after :P.

who ever try to compair salaries are very unplasent. remember salaries depend on the persons skill level and experience. that show how un educated person he is. wounder whether this guy working any where???? and im not tell any thing to his institiution. coz problem with the guy not institution……..

SLIIT 4 ever……