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What is an Experienced IT Professional’s Dilemma – 1?

Many Professionals working in the IT industry know that the job they have entered into is not what they aspired for. Even though they are paid well and are climbing the corporate ladder, there is a deep vacuum inside. They end up doing jobs that don’t give them any Job satisfaction. They are constantly moving away from what they would like to do and they don’t get any support or true guidance from anyone.

If you are seriously looking to change your current Job profile and start working on high-quality work OR want to build a solid foundation for your career, the right thing is to acquire the skills necessary to match and qualify for the requirements of the job. Sanfoundry can surely help you to achieve your goals in a systematic way. There are many who are benefited from our true guidance.

What is an Experienced IT Professional’s Dilemma – 2?

Another problem with experienced IT professionals is the “mid-life” crisis. These are people with 5-15 years of experience and they have big difficulty choosing their “next career move”. What are trending technology topics and how can one look forward to re-align themselves to these new trends? Sanfoundry can surely help you identify new trends in the hi-tech industry and how to steadily re-align yourself in these areas for a big career jump. There are many who are benefited from our true guidance.

What is Fresher’s Dilemma?

Most of the Freshers realize the hard way that they have not acquired any significant Technology Skills in 4-Years of Engineering. They come to cities for Jobs and skills upgradation and fall into another trap of Mass Market Training Institutes. They have been conditioned by the environment to go for the Cheapest and most Popular Mass-market courses on Java, .Net, Web-Technologies, and Software Testing, and thousands -and- thousands of freshers enroll in these courses. These training institutes put them in a batch of 50-100-150 students, without any focus on deep Technology Skills training. After the training, Fresher is having a new Certificate and again Jobless and many-a-times lose their Confidence.

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A lot of freshers joining the industry are eventually put into the job for which there is the most demand irrespective of the nature of the work or their qualifications. It can be testing work or low-end maintenance work or even documentation work. We have seen many graduates from premier colleges with Computer Science degrees, being put into these types of work or even into L1/L2 technical call center jobs. Once a person stays in that kind of job, (s)he gets TAGGED to that type of work and there is no escape and they don’t really get a true GUIDANCE on what to do next. Only very few are fortunate enough to get into decent quality development work.

If you are looking to build a solid foundation for your career, then take the toughest Professional Courses from a Professional that will impart significant in-depth Technical skills to enable you for the challenges of your Technology intensive and hugely rewarding future. There is really no shortcut to this. Sanfoundry can surely help achieve your goals.

What are the key Technical Skills Required for an extremely Rewarding Career?

Here are a few sample requirements (Taken from Top Technology Companies Job Postings):

  • Proven experience in independently designing, developing, and delivering big and complex software products
  • Experience in creating and reviewing designs, specifications, estimates, and code
  • Expert level knowledge in developing and maintaining high-performance multi-threaded servers
  • Strong hands-on programming experience using C/C++ – must have knowledge in memory management, and locking strategies to optimize performance
  • Experience in design, and development of system infrastructure software, such as high availability and In-service software upgrade for complex storage and networking products
  • Hands-on experience in programming in C and Linux software environments for high-end CPUs and Network Processors
  • Proficiency in programming in C/C++, development of algorithm using efficient data structures to come up with optimized code, debugging and troubleshooting under Linux environment
  • In-depth knowledge of Linux interrupt handling
  • Experiences working with one or more types of network processors
  • Excellent debugging skills
  • Knowledge and experience with Build environment/tools
  • Experience with the full Software Development lifecycle
  • Ability to evaluate and integrate Third-Party technologies into an existing codebase
  • Find satisfaction in creating a really well-written piece of code
  • Core responsibility includes planning new products and product improvements
  • How to acquire such Deep Technology skills?

    The training programs available in the market try to bridge the skills gap by introducing courses in C, Java, Linux, and so on and there is absolutely no focus on the quality of projects selected to assimilate the essence of these basic courses. Another problem with these courses is that they are mass-market courses to be taught by anyone to anyone and the result is: anyone can get a course-or-certificate, but no great skill. Most of the training centers in India are run by non-technical guys who run training as a business with no focus on Technical depths. Most of you who have undergone these training programs would know if you really qualify for the sample job requirements mentioned above.

    What one really needs is continuous engagement in this learning with real, contemporary, and practical projects. And this requires a certain focus and pace to learn and assimilate the technology. And all this requires TIME – time to design, time to do the real hard work of implementation, and time to redesign, and the maturity cycle goes on and on. Being part of the technology development cycle for over 20+ years we know what is a software development model for a piece of technology and what are the real skills needed to go there. If you are interested in enrolling in such a program, do come to us and meet our Founder for a discussion.

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    How much Salary can I expect and which Companies can I target?

    Here is the biggest and great secret of the HiTech Industry: These types of Careers and Jobs are in recession proof and it is really very very rewarding. It can easily range anywhere between 5L to 70L+ per annum in India.

    Targeted Companies: Cisco, Juniper Networks, Arista, EMC, Netapp, Qlogic, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, LinkedIn, Facebook, Wipro, Mindtree, TCS, Cognizant, Accenture, IBM Research, and many Technology Startups…

    What is Sanfoundry’s Fee for Mentoring / Consulting Program?

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    Sanfoundry doesn’t charge a Professional fee for mentoring sessions. So, come to us for rock solid and proven career guidance where you would be meeting our Founder & CTO who has 20+ Years of Technology Experience in Product Design at Cisco and Wipro. You can discuss your career aspirations and plan a proven and working path to chase your dream Job.

    How to book a slot with our Founder – Manish Sir for Mentoring?

    We have 2 slots of 30 minutes each open in the evening which get prebooked well in advance. Slot 1 – 6:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.; Slot 2 – 7:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. (Only Monday to Friday). Email us at [email protected] for booking a slot.

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    Manish Bhojasia - Founder & CTO at Sanfoundry
    Manish Bhojasia, a technology veteran with 20+ years @ Cisco & Wipro, is Founder and CTO at Sanfoundry. He lives in Bangalore, and focuses on development of Linux Kernel, SAN Technologies, Advanced C, Data Structures & Alogrithms. Stay connected with him at LinkedIn.

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