Mission R&D launched the pilot in Hyderabad in the summer of 2012 with 41 students (more than half of them are women) from five partner colleges from Hyderabad, Visakhapatnam, and Bhimavaram.
Pre-Summer Phase:
In order to identify smart, hard working, and motivated students, Mission R&D implemented a well conceived 2-stage selection process. In the first stage, out of 600 odd applicants from CS and IT streams from the 5 colleges the best 120 students were selected following an assessment test. In April, the second round of test on coding and problem-solving skills was held for the 120 after putting them through 20 hours of classroom instruction at respective colleges in the preceding two months. The brightest 41 were selected for the program.
Summer Camp:
An intense, 6 weeks long, a full stack development program was conducted in Hyderabad from May 23 – June 30 . It combined 20% of classroom teaching with 80% of the time spent on doing hands-on projects.
It covered advanced problem solving using a variety of data structures, design patterns, OS, and compiler fundamentals. Students worked on real-world projects end to end and hosted them on the windows azure cloud. Projects included implementation of low-level input/output management, memory management, API framework, console clients, and HTML5 to build forums service as well as twitter service.
Mock interviews were conducted for all the students and feedback was shared on where they need to improve.
Post Summer Camp:
In the last week of July placement was organized and it was attended by six global product firms and startups: Microsoft IDC, Cisco India, Paypal/eBay India, Pramati, Setu Software, and Cloudpact. The six companies in all made 23 offers to 19 students (of which 8 are women students).
Overall Summary:
|
Partner colleges |
51 |
|
Students who attended the pilot program |
412 |
|
Number of companies |
6 |
|
Offers made by 6 employers |
233 |
|
Students who received job offers |
19 (46%)4 |
|
Average annual salary7 |
Rs.7.7 lac |
1 BVRIT in Hyderabad, GVPCE in Visakhapatnam, and SIT, SVECW, and BVRICE in Bhimavaram.
2 Were picked out of a pool of 500 from 5 partner colleges.
3 Some students received multiple offers.
4 The remaining students received job offers through their campus placement process
5 Sum total of the salaries of all accepted offers divided by the number of accepted offers.
Women:
|
Women who attended training |
21 or 51% |
|
Women who were placed |
8 or 42% |
Details of recruiters, offers, and salary:
|
Employer |
Offers made |
Offers accepted |
Annual salary |
|
Cisco |
4 |
3 |
Rs.8 lac |
|
Paypal |
3 |
2 |
Rs.10 lac |
|
Microsoft |
3 |
3 |
Rs.16 lac |
|
Pramati |
7 |
6 |
Rs.5 lac |
|
Cloudpact |
2 |
1 |
Rs.4 lac |
|
SETU |
5 |
4 |
Rs.5 lac |