I graduated five years ago; my college (among 800) colleges in the southern state of Tamil Nadu was one of the best among the private colleges. This meant that the students in the college used to be so good at rote learning that they used to get good grades in the statewide exams. This is how things work everywhere; the only difference between the IITs and such colleges is that the former had people who were more driven to be successful.
The average person who studied at these private colleges would invariably get a job in one of the offshore development firms. What type of Engineer you were didn't matter; the requirement was that you were able to do well in the system of rote learning. Today, the pipeline is still flooded with people trying to do the same thing; the only problem is that the offshore development firms are more picky. They pick a small subset of those 800 colleges and hire people from there. Those who are unlucky enough not to have predicted what this subset would be 4 years in advance are fucked; they are forced to figure out a new system of surviving, those that can do, the others become statistics.
The average person who studied at these private colleges would invariably get a job in one of the offshore development firms. What type of Engineer you were didn't matter; the requirement was that you were able to do well in the system of rote learning. Today, the pipeline is still flooded with people trying to do the same thing; the only problem is that the offshore development firms are more picky. They pick a small subset of those 800 colleges and hire people from there. Those who are unlucky enough not to have predicted what this subset would be 4 years in advance are fucked; they are forced to figure out a new system of surviving, those that can do, the others become statistics.