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15-year-old Sonu interviews IITians, questions why new software engineers struggle to find jobs.
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News18•27-09-2026, 16:29
15-year-old Sonu interviews IITians, questions why new software engineers struggle to find jobs.
- •Sonu Kumar, founder of NPMAI Ecosystem, shared his views on the job prospects and technical preparedness of new Software Engineers.
- •He noted that many new developers focus on modern tools and abstraction-level concepts, but their grasp of Computer Science Fundamentals appears weak.
- •Sonu, who gained fame for questioning Bihar's then-Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, conducted interviews with students from IIT Roorkee and IIT Delhi.
- •During the interviews, he found that candidates lacked basic knowledge of database concepts like sharding and cascading, and networking fundamentals.
- •Sonu advises new developers to focus on Computer Science fundamentals alongside modern tools, emphasizing that basic knowledge is crucial for effective engineering.
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Sonu Kumar is in the news for a video from the NPMAI Ecosystem interview panel where he discussed why new software engineers are struggling to get jobs and highlighted their weak computer science fundamentals.
He first went viral in 2022 after confronting Bihar's then-Chief Minister Nitish Kumar about the state of government school education when he was a young student.
He observed that candidates knew modern tools and abstraction-level concepts but lacked basic fundamental knowledge, noting that candidates from top institutions like IIT Roorkee did not know database concepts like sharding or cascading.
