Bangladeshi Software Industry

Yesterday, I went to Shahjalal University of Science & Technology, Sylhet to attend a Career Talk. I never attend on any kind of talk show before not even to listen. Funny thing was, yesterday I was a speaker! The show was all about career plan for newly B.Sc completed students. How to find a better job in competitive market? In other way, how to sell yourself?

I am not a giant in software industry and I don’t want to be. I have very negative view about Bangladeshi Software Industry. Basically my conclusion about other’s software industry is all the way same. As usual in case of Bangladesh it is worst. The top guys are useless and mostly idiot. The real talents never remain in Bangladesh!!!

I have a real life example for this. Probably CSE, BUET’94 is one of the greatest Batches in history of BUET but none of them is here right now. So what few guys from other department like Mechanical and Electrical dominating the market and become the giant but in real life they are shits, complete idiots. Even they know that they are the shits but they pretend to be a (???). This is the most probable case, I will not say that all are same of course there are exceptions but with very low probability.

I heard a story about a PHP guy from BUET Mechanical, a complete idiot (cagoler bacca) who pretend to be in top most guys in PHP. The funny thing was he was claiming himself as a giant in the industry. Mostak, Pappanna, Jewel all are from 94 Batch and this con man claim himself a Giant. I have reached to a conclusion, probably he don’t know what the real computer science is? Anyway, shit happens!!!

However, we were talking about Bangladeshi Software Industry. Bangladeshi Software Industry is based on outsourcing and offshore jobs which does not have much difference from garments industry. There is not much hope with our industry. Lot of reasons are there like market is too small. Among them most are already habituated with pirated software even the government, so not much hope. Still computer is not a necessary part of our life and so on. And the frustrating part is corporate world who could be the potential market has not much trust on our software industry. So they buy their product from other market leaders. Anyway, I don’t see much hope here but surely that doesn’t mean there is not much hope.

I think there is not much challenge in software industry unless you work with cutting edge research products.

And very few company in the world work with that sort of product. The industry is based on mediocre people even they don’t need a real talented guy. And another thing is the total knowledge base is based on business which is very alarming. Basically businessmen know very little except their profit and for the shake of the profit they could bury the total knowledge.