Web3 a Day 154: Fresh Software Developers from India: Time to Secure Your Career in Web3

Santosh Panda
Web3 A Day
Published in
1 min readJun 13, 2024

Fresh Developers:

Don’t learn the usual programming languages and comp engg for decade-old careers!

Time to do something different!

Did you know 👇

  • In India, 1.5 million engineering students graduate each year, of which around 100,000 are computer science engineers.
  • As of 2024, India has nearly 5 million software developers.
  • COVID-19 and the post-pandemic slowdown impacted the hiring.

The hiring slump continued into 2023, with gross IT hiring addition hitting an all-time low of 14%, down from a peak of 40% in the first quarter of 2022.

The industry body Nasscom estimated an addition of about 60,000 jobs in FY’24, a nearly 80% drop from the previous year’s addition. Source

The IT sector is expected to see an 8–10% growth in hiring in 2024, driven by the surge in global capabilities centers (GCCs) and emerging technologies like AI, Blockchain (web3), Cloud computing, Cyber security and deeptech.

It’s time to learn new tech and deep tech and build an incredible career.

Read more here https://www.santoshpanda.com/Day-154-Fresh-Software-Developers-from-India-Time-to-Secure-Your-Career-in-Web3-cbcf574ac0a14f12800c0eb379347221

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Santosh Panda
Web3 A Day

CoFounder -Foundership : Web3 Accelerator VC. Prev: CEO @Explara 2008-20| Engg eBay UK / BBCiPlayer /Comicrelief