Discipline behind art-Interview with India's niit CEO

This afternoon, I interviewed Vijay thadani, CEO of niit in India. Niit is India's largest IT training institution with its business in 38 countries and regions. At the same time, niit tech is also a software enterprise of cm5.

Details of the interview will be shown in the csdn news. I don't think this interview is wonderful, but I did some homework and checked some materials to prepare for this interview.

The biggest feeling is that we are still talking about whether to take the road to India. India is already riding the dust. In a report, my colleague Yan Zhen concluded that the number of developers in large software enterprises in India is not hundreds or thousands, but tens of thousands and the largest Infosys, the number of developers is about to reach 32,000, and India is already at the forefront of the world in terms of software engineering. Now it is ridiculous to talk about whether to take the road to India and whether to compete with India. In addition, the Indian software industry is not as comfortable as we are to ourselves as it is to sleep about the status quo of outsourcing, but has already moved into the field of independent technology and compete with IBM in the United States. In other words, people are upgrading the industry! In this case, five years later, we should discuss whether we are going to take the path of Vietnam.

I complained about the problem.

I asked the CEO a question. I said that Chinese programmers are not the same as Indian programmers, and they are very impatient. If they fail to earn a high salary or improve in a few years, they will not be able to stand it anymore. The Indian brothers seem to be different. Is that true?

He said no. Indian programmers are equally impatient and want to get a high salary and be promoted as soon as possible. This is almost the case for programmers all over the world.

The following are the most important words.

"The difference is that Chinese programmers treat programming as an art. This is true. programming is an art. But our Indian programmers not only know that programming is art, but also recognize that there is still a need for discipline behind art. You have your art, I have my art, and she has her art. Only by integrating our art through discipline can you complete valuable work. I have heard that Chinese programmers are better at free thinking, so they are very successful in game software. India's software strengths lie in business solutions, in which discipline is particularly important. After mastering the technology through training, everyone can succeed as long as they can strictly abide by discipline and earnestly put their work in place ."

There is still discipline behind art. Maybe this is the foundation of India's software success philosophy. For many of us, the greatest charm of programming comes from the pleasure of creation, the pleasure of "not going through the ordinary path", and the pleasure of transcendence. If programming is a well-behaved mechanical job, I don't think many people will embark on this path. But the fun that drove us to the path of programming was perhaps the root cause of the inability of the Chinese software industry to grow. At least this Indian knows that.

I have always been reluctant to follow the Indian road, because the Indian mode is the most suitable software development model for India. China is not India, and of course it cannot follow the Indian Road. However, successful experiences in India can be used for reference. Indians observe discipline, so they focus on business software, order customization, contract development, and establishment of super large software enterprises. What are the characteristics of Chinese? What route should I choose? What kind of software industry structure should be established? I don't know if anyone has discussed it seriously, but it seems that everyone is more discussing the pseudo question of "India or America. Sometimes it is really strange to me. Why do we have to take a foreign route to survive?

The CEO said that Chinese game software was very successful, and he did not have to think about it. He probably heard about the popularity of Chinese online games. But he did not know that most of Chinese online games were made in South Korea. Free thinking? I seem to remember that more than 10 years ago, people said that the advantage of Chinese football was "smart ".