engineers: 95% engineers in India unfit for software development jobs: Report - total rubbish, stupid study https://t.co/rdcWZWuzLs — Mohandas Pai (@TVMohandasPai) April 20, 2017

I agree @TVMohandasPai I don't know where they get this inference from. In fact blue collar workers of the future are coders https://t.co/becNBevTsp — Kiran Mazumdar Shaw (@kiranshaw) April 21, 2017

A recent study that claimed that 95 per cent of engineers in the country are not fit to take up software development jobs has evoked sharp reactions.IT veteran TV Mohandas Pai has termed the study "total rubbish". Pai, the Chairman of Manipal Global Education, has been a CFO and a board member at Infosys.The study by employability assessment company Aspiring Minds concluded that only 4.77 per cent candidates could write the correct logic for a programme—a minimum requirement for any programming job.More than 36,000 engineering students form IT-related branches of over 500 colleges took Automata—a Machine Learning based assessment of software development skills—and over 2/3 could not even write code that compiles.The study found while more than 60 per cent candidates could not even write code that compiled, only 1.4 per cent could write functionally correct and efficient code."95% engineers in India unfit for software development jobs: Report - total rubbish, stupid study," Pai tweeted yesterday.Pai's reaction found support from another top business leader. Kiran Mazumdar Shaw—founder, chairperson and managing director of biotechnology company Biocon—tweeted: "I agree @TVMohandasPai I don't know where they get this inference from. In fact blue collar workers of the future are coders."The Aspiring Minds study comes when Indian IT companies must retrain their workers to face the challenges of emerging technology.New technology is transforming the nature of business at IT companies. Increasing automation and cloud computing have hit revenues. Now there is less business in maintenance and software services, the traditional domain of Indian IT companies.