@Arkandel Right, IT is very different.
I have interviewed people who, on paper, sound great: Bachelors degree, a long list of tech jargon (cloud, linux, shell scripting, Jenkins, automation, etc etc etc), and then you find out in the interview that they're right out of college, applied these tech skills in a training environment, or simply used preconfigured instructions. They don't really know the tech or how to admin it, but they touched it so I guess put it on the app, right?
Our IT hiring is the same way. The pecking order from my perspective is:
- Certs + Experience + College
- Certs + Experience
- College + Certs
- Experience/College
Tech training in India fucks everything up a bit, too. Their "colleges" include these internship programs where they don't really do a lot of out of the box thinking or creation of anything lasting. Not every person comes out of those internship programs with knowledge as to how to be an operator/admin of whatever process they own. No, instead these "internships" are listed as employment by some tech firm (included in the cost of the training) and the only thing I can see it is good for is to pad these resumes with employment history; despite the fact said employment was some cakewalk stuff.
So we get these Indian apps that are COLLEGE! SKILLS! EXPERIENCE! HALF THE SALARY! but then later find out that they were told to just shut up, follow instructions, and have lesser value.
This is why some firms are now regretting hardcore overnight Indian staffing or outsourcing their Ops to India.