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As someone born and raised in India, I find attitudes like this quite annoying. Programmers tend to be passionate and self-learners; you want an university to teach you? Look at what some programmers from Tamil Nadu came up with: http://hasura.io/

This is such a stupid comment. There are lots of specialists in India, isn't it possible that Snapdeal just doesn't appeal to them? Snapdeal is not exactly building anything ground breaking and a job at Snapdeal is nothing to write home about, for a specialist. They just come off as a shitty Flipkart/Amazon clone. All of my experiences buying from them was unsatisfactory.

Also I dont think someone needs to study in a university to become a specialist. Passion I think is more important than formal university education