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Indians outshine US developers in mathematics and logic [The Economic Times, India](Economic Times (India) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) July 05--KOLKATA: Indians outshine US developers in mathematics and logic, two of the core skills desired by US technology companies such as Oracle, Salesforce, and eBay, a study released by GILD said. GILD is a professional social network for people in the technology industry and combines social gaming with career advancement. The study compared US and Indian developers in key programming and communication skills. It examined over 1 million tests taken by nearly 500,000 developers and found that while Indians score on mathematics; their US counterparts score on in web programming skills, valued by companies such as Facebook, Google, and Twitter. According to GILD, its tests give technology professionals worldwide a way to rank themselves against their peers by simulating real world coding situations, testing for the application of coding knowledge and experience. "Tech giants use GILD's proprietary ranking system to find new employees and benchmark existing employees, enabling them to discover a broad spectrum of capabilities including technical ability, personality traits, aptitude, and communication skills," a statement made by GILD said. Sheeroy Desai, chief executive officer at GILD said: "GILD's study of over 1 million skill tests shows the dramatic advances coming out of India, where in some cases engineers are clearly rivaling their counterparts in the US. America still holds a strong lead when it comes to web development, but I suspect the gap will narrow over the next few years. There is currently a shortage of software engineers in the US, especially in Silicon Valley. This is the first study that has hard data on the quality of engineers across the US and India. It provides a clear guideline for what type of skills companies should outsource to India, and what they should continue to source in the US." Other findings from the study suggests that Indian developers outscore US developers by 11 percent on math and logic analytical skills, while US programmers slightly outperform Indian programmers on mainstream programming languages, including C (US 8 percent higher), JAVA (9 percent higher) and SQL (9 percent higher). Indian programmers also slightly outshine US programmers on Advanced C++ programming, but US professionals score higher on web programming languages: 53 percent higher scores on advanced PHP; 27 percent higher on advanced HTML. PHP and HTML are web programming languages. US tech professionals are 33 percent better skilled than Indian counterparts at English communication skills, the study suggests. ___ To see more of The Economic Times, or to subscribe to the newspaper, go to http://economictimes.indiatimes.com. Copyright (c) 2011, The Economic Times, India Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services. For more information about the content services offered by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services (MCT), visit www.mctinfoservices.com, e-mail [email protected], or call 866-280-5210 (outside the United States, call +1 312-222-4544) |