Title : All that glitters is not gold
Review : I joined NIIT in 1993 just after finishing B.Com in the hope of having a good career. I joined the center located in Nungambakkam, Chennai. I joined the two-year course called Advanced Diploma in Systems Management. When I went in to join, one of my distant relative was the center head. She took me to the reception where I was told all sorts of fairy tales about placements & MNC’s & good salary & career. I simply got carried away by all these things. Initially we had a good faculty. I scored good marks from the second semester onwards. I sincerely believed that the returns from this course will be good. But during my fourth semester there was a change of faculty. This particular guy was more interested in psychology. He would spend a lot of time talking about Zen & the art of motor cycle maintenance, rationalists etc. During the placement sessions, he sent those students who showed interest in his psychology classes to the best companies. I gained nothing by way of knowledge in this semester, although I scored well. The others, including me either did not get placed or got placed in companies that were paying a paltry Rs.1000 per month. In most of the interviews I was asked very technical things which I had no knowledge about. NIIT simply does not teach you anything technical. If you have the interest, then you should go ahead & gain knowledge from your own sources. My widowed mother who had spent about Rs.20000 for this course was disappointed with me. After a few months of being shunted from one job to another, I finally quit the IT scene. I never got to study much beyond NIIT because my failure to get something out of my studies there became too much of a mental burden to handle. I paid my price for having been attracted to a glitter. I shifted to the financial services industry & atleast made good career there. NIIT is simply not for the middle-income, hard-working students.