Thank you, Sumit!

Looking back to 1984, if I had known then what I know now, I would have applied to the CS program at Carnegie Mellon. It has consistently been one of the top programs in the country for the last 35+ years.

There is a difference between coding talent and creating startups. You could hire people to code for you ‘French companies also hire people from other colleges. Also you would find a high amount of colleges from India. That is because most computer science students including myself hardly ever operated computers and instead prepared for this exam called IITJEE advanced ‘The toughest exam in the world at undergraduate level’ somebody else don’t say anything else, this exam literally scares the shit out of nearly one million aspirants every year and only 10k students pass with a selection ratio of less than 1%, even these 1% students don’t get computer science as only 10% seats are available for computer science. Now these students among top 0.1% among a population of more than 1 billion are concentrated in these colleges called IITs (you mut have observed a lot of them in the list). How could you possibly compete with them? So don’t be bewildered(though even I am surprised by the fact that there is no MIT/ Harvard in the list. Also if France was the third biggest delegation let me tell you that CEOs and majority of employees of top tech companies in the world including Google, Microsoft etc are from these same IITs. The biggest example being Sundar Pichai CEO of google and an alumni of IIT kharagpur.

actually most of them use this website. And yes IIT indore has many talented coders and is placed no.4 in the world in the ‘coding olympiad’ other IITs and ivy league universities though participated could’nt make it. . Though coding talent is not necessarily an indication of a good computer engineer, would only make coders more like ‘translators’ who work all day in small cubicles. Good Unis are good at producing leaders and not coders.