BENGALURU: Fresh engineering graduates joining GCCs (global capability centres of MNCs) are hugely aspirational . They are reluctant to do grunt work. And they are particularly eager to work on the most fashionable technologies - AI , in today's context.
A recent LinkedIn study found that GenZ is more AI-ready than others as they focus on doing AI-specific courses. But this is becoming a pain point for GCCs, all of whom are trying to find ways to temper expectations and help freshers understand the end-to-end needs of the engineering and software assembly lines. "My biggest struggle with this generation is that they talk only about AI and ML.
Just out of college, they do not understand that in a sector like banking, AI cannot be deployed just like that, that banks are bound by lots of regulations," Srikanth Gopalakrishnan, CIO for people and head of the India technology centre, Deutsche Bank Group, said. To deal with this, the bank gets trainees to do at least two projects over one year, after which they can choose a permanent project. As a result of this exercise, Gopalakrishnan said that many of them look for projects based on the exposure they get and not just the technology.
In this process, freshers are also made to understand that work such as resolving tickets will be a huge part of their daily job in the initial years. "When they come out of college, they have a mindset that work is always about writing code from scratch," he added. Vaidyanathan Seshan, SVP and India .
