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1. How much does "project making" pay compared to other available software jobs?

2. Are those projects more fun than other jobs?

3. Subvert the whole system: Create a project-making company. Keep good records. Refer your employees to employers, on the basis of their solid project portfolios. Basically, project-making companies thus displace the universities as the place where real learning happens and is proven.

4. Thank you to all the Indians posting here today. I feel like I am reading hackernews.in, and it's nice to get a vacation from Silicon Valley :-)

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1. It doesn't pay much. The people it employs are engineers who did not get jobs in software companies.

2. No. More often than not, students end up doing projects "suggested" by these project-making companies. They already have a bunch of "Student Database Management System" and "Hospital Record Management System" projects lying around which they rehash.

3. This already happens to an extent. People who work in these low paying jobs end up getting some experience and move onto better paying jobs. But like I said in (2) above, what they get to do are hardly any fun stuff

1. 20 - 30 projects a year = 1 yr. inexperienced programmer salary. 2. Fun - yes, Interesting - yes => if you can convince students to choose projects on whatever you want to work on. 3. Project making companies are dime a dozen. 4. Most welcome :)

PS - when I was a student I did 2-3 other projects for others...

AND students studying MS in USA and UK also send their assignments/homeworks back home - did those too ;)

>>AND students studying MS in USA and UK also send their assignments/homeworks back home - did those too ;)

Actually MS in USA and UK in many(Not all, so please don't frown on me) cases is really for.

    a. Foreign degree.
    b. USA return/citizen stamp.
    c. Helps to get dowry in many cases.

How many people actually go there to study in the true sense?

I know it won't matter much and you would just have to take my word for it, but i would love to study in valley, get a masters or something. Although would come back after education (if I am not selected into YC).

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