NIIT is one of the biggest training institutes of IT related courses in India. It teaches C, C++, Java, .Net and the very famous GNIIT which is actually a 2 year diploma from NIIT itself with a BSc IT degree from distance learning.
It is worse than even 1 room tuition centers open all throughout Delhi these days. First thing first there are few actual NIIT centers, most are franchisees. So, be sure to check if the one you join is not a franchisee. Best option will be not to join NIIT itself but then for those with ample time and money its not much an issue or if you are one of those whose Luck ran out then my sympathies are with you. I dropped out of my Java course after wasting Rs.22,000.
So, coming back.
Faculty
- One reason why its bad is that the faculty is semi-litrate. They might boast about how good their faculty is, about the certifications they hold. “We have Microsoft, Sun certifies trainers!”. Sure they do but thats ALL they have. Just a certification. Tell me people, if one is so technically sound then why wont they join Infosys, HCL, Wipro, TCS? Why would they not make software and teach at NIIT?
- They teach from the books provided which have limited material and few practical examples. The material is good for understanding the basics but lacks the thoroughness. I mean sure, the Java books provided by NIIT were good but they were just around 50 pages! Just intro to basics and no deeper concepts.
- Most of the queries are kept for tomorrow or after class discussions which never happen
- Infact my teacher for Advanced Java was a GNIIT passout from the same NIIT center!
Admission Criteria
NIIT has no admission criteria what so ever, they take up anyone who is willing to pay. Everytime, their “counselor” will tell you that they have a special discount going on which is left only for TODAY! And you should book your seat at the earliest. They always have limited seats but batches start only after their required number of students are reached. The dates get postponed everytime.
Teaching
Its like an eyewash. They give you an introduction and you can go and sleep at home. The teachers know just what they have to teach, if you ask anything beyond the Sun Book (It was supposed to be certified from Sun Training). They certainly promise to get back to you with an answer but never actually get back. The books provided by Sun are pathetic to say the least. Just theory and definitions. Not a single working whole program that goes beyond 30 lines. Just snippets.
Sometimes their LABS are not available, required software is not installed in the systems better still the faculty gets absent and class gets canceled once a week. Its like a ritual. Most of the times the LABS are reserved for GNIIT students who have their projects to make.
After joining NIIT, the teachers keep pushing you to go for their certifications like MCP and SCJP i.e Microsoft Certified Professional and Sun Certified Java respectively. You are also suggested to purchase vouchers from NIIT for these exams only because they are prometric centers!
In my opinion, you dont need any certification if you are an engineer or hold a masters degree. A certification can only supplement your qualification. It itself is no qualification.
Verdict
For those who got good training at NITT , I’d say they were among the few lucky ones.I have not encountered anyone whose experiences differ from mine. NIIT is a waste of time. Its more useful and productive to do self study on your own.
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I am very sorry for you..
I am very sorry for you..
@Prateek
Its allright, I take it as a blessing in disguise. Never ever will I spend even Re.1 on training institutes. I found a new way to learn using video tutorials. Its been great since then
@Prateek
Its allright, I take it as a blessing in disguise. Never ever will I spend even Re.1 on training institutes. I found a new way to learn using video tutorials. Its been great since then
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I suggest people willing to join Niit to only go for Niit owned centres not niit franchise. I am too an GNIIT passout student from NIIT owned centre, gwalior branch and today I got placement from it.
I suggest people willing to join Niit to only go for Niit owned centres not niit franchise. I am too an GNIIT passout student from NIIT owned centre, gwalior branch and today I got placement from it.
Hi,
Sorry for you, its not whether the centre is a franchisee or a NIIT owned centre.
Its about how demanding you are. You put your effort follow the books ask for good teachers around to have your things done. Or raise complaints through the suggestion box.
I joined NIIT Perambur centre a franchisee and still it helped me a great deal to complete my GNIIT and also helped with my placement in Polaris. Now I moved to TCS after two and half years. In my view NIIT got me the job when my friends were still searching for a job. I hold a MCA.
NIIT works only if you are keen to make your own roads. It provides you the map. About certification vouchers, you take it if you want it. They need to sell. You must know how to equip yourself and acquire the certification or if not how to ascertain your employer that you are on par with a certified professional.
NIIT is expensive but it doesn’t cheat.
Regards,
Shankar Raj.J
Hi Shankar
Thanks for your comment. As you did your GNIIT that’s what I mentioned in my post.
NIIT focuses on GNIIT students rather than those opting for individual courses. Many a times labs were not available due to labs for GNIIT guys.
I assume the schedule should be already planned then how come this happens?
Also, how many got placed from your batch? I am of the opinion that your being selected for TCS has got nothing to do wih NIIT instead it’s got more to do with your being a MCA
If you are a computer science degree holder then NIIT adds nothing extra. been there, done that.
ok ok,i believe NIIT wont cheat .Recently ,i went to my nearby NIIT for asking abt “jobs in 99 days” scheme.Since “syllabus covered”<"money(rs:33000) ",i said that i am not interested in joining now.Now,its been 2 weeks and these ppl r repeatedly trying to contact me thru mobile (5 to 10 missed calls /day).Are they shortage of money ?i know all centres would do like this but NIIT is forcing me to join them…that clearly shows they current scenario.
Hi,
Sorry for you, its not whether the centre is a franchisee or a NIIT owned centre.
Its about how demanding you are. You put your effort follow the books ask for good teachers around to have your things done. Or raise complaints through the suggestion box.
I joined NIIT Perambur centre a franchisee and still it helped me a great deal to complete my GNIIT and also helped with my placement in Polaris. Now I moved to TCS after two and half years. In my view NIIT got me the job when my friends were still searching for a job. I hold a MCA.
NIIT works only if you are keen to make your own roads. It provides you the map. About certification vouchers, you take it if you want it. They need to sell. You must know how to equip yourself and acquire the certification or if not how to ascertain your employer that you are on par with a certified professional.
NIIT is expensive but it doesn’t cheat.
Regards,
Shankar Raj.J
Hi Shankar
Thanks for your comment. As you did your GNIIT that’s what I mentioned in my post.
NIIT focuses on GNIIT students rather than those opting for individual courses. Many a times labs were not available due to labs for GNIIT guys.
I assume the schedule should be already planned then how come this happens?
Also, how many got placed from your batch? I am of the opinion that your being selected for TCS has got nothing to do wih NIIT instead it’s got more to do with your being a MCA
If you are a computer science degree holder then NIIT adds nothing extra. been there, done that.
ok ok,i believe NIIT wont cheat .Recently ,i went to my nearby NIIT for asking abt “jobs in 99 days” scheme.Since “syllabus covered”<"money(rs:33000) ",i said that i am not interested in joining now.Now,its been 2 weeks and these ppl r repeatedly trying to contact me thru mobile (5 to 10 missed calls /day).Are they shortage of money ?i know all centres would do like this but NIIT is forcing me to join them…that clearly shows they current scenario.
Well lab availability depends on the planning the NIIT center does.
You should be given enough Machine room and Lab sessions if not speak to your counsellor on that. Well they plan it for GNIIT but for others you need to voice out to get your sessions allocated.
I think you did Java Masters etc. My sincere advise please have system at home to hit at all your lab sessions and practice all it takes at the NIIT center. Do not ask for explanations at NIIT you got Google to help you. At NIIT ask them all that the material points to they answer only that.
Well I got to TCS after working for Polaris for 2+ years. NIIT Placed me in Polaris. The fact I stand by NIIT is that in 2003 when we passed out there was a dark patch in the market and we were not being offered. Especially my college did not have any campus recruitment structure. Out of a batch of 63 MCAs only 4 got placed and of which 3 were NIITians. Note I was not a class topper and I had completed my course with arrears etc. Still I was given opportunity to prove my practical knowledge and apply the same in workplace. Thats what mattered here.
In my GNIIT batch 27 out of 30 got placed one went for MS in US(on his own as he did not want a job at that time). and 2 had arrears in their college and did not finish GNIIT sem D due to various lame excuses they had to give. Not all of the GNIIT batchmates were MCAs or BEs we had BCom, BSc students as well and all of us got into IT firms thats the best part.
If you have doubts of how NIIT runs even these days I can give you live examples as I still recommend and see people benefit from NIIT but yes you are right, it also matters as to who runs the NIIT centers in a particular place.
But as a student you can demand to have things done for you.
Well the first year on PP at Polaris through NIIT was for INR4K per month but still it was very vital for me at that time to get into a job. In a year I got confirmed for a package of Rs185000/- a year. Well in 2004-2005 this was a good starter pay.
Holding an MCA helped me to get promotions earlier in the second year of service.
Hmm
Frankly, I am from the other side of the world. Havig access to computers since I was 14 year old.
I was a science student with computers in school and now have completed my BCA.
For people like me. NIIT doesn’t work. It offers nothing new apart from what we learn in college and my degree is enough to get me through IBM, DELL, TCS.
I have been placed with iGate with a 2L package wich is a defacto for dreshers these days but I may go for my higher studies now.
In yourcase, it’s different as you were not a comp sci student and I assume that’s were all the help you got from niit has come in handy.
And yes, I did Advanced Java. J2EE. It was pathetic. I learned on my own later and currently I work freelance as a web developer.
Anyways, it was a good discussion and welcome to programmingkid.
Well lab availability depends on the planning the NIIT center does.
You should be given enough Machine room and Lab sessions if not speak to your counsellor on that. Well they plan it for GNIIT but for others you need to voice out to get your sessions allocated.
I think you did Java Masters etc. My sincere advise please have system at home to hit at all your lab sessions and practice all it takes at the NIIT center. Do not ask for explanations at NIIT you got Google to help you. At NIIT ask them all that the material points to they answer only that.
Well I got to TCS after working for Polaris for 2+ years. NIIT Placed me in Polaris. The fact I stand by NIIT is that in 2003 when we passed out there was a dark patch in the market and we were not being offered. Especially my college did not have any campus recruitment structure. Out of a batch of 63 MCAs only 4 got placed and of which 3 were NIITians. Note I was not a class topper and I had completed my course with arrears etc. Still I was given opportunity to prove my practical knowledge and apply the same in workplace. Thats what mattered here.
In my GNIIT batch 27 out of 30 got placed one went for MS in US(on his own as he did not want a job at that time). and 2 had arrears in their college and did not finish GNIIT sem D due to various lame excuses they had to give. Not all of the GNIIT batchmates were MCAs or BEs we had BCom, BSc students as well and all of us got into IT firms thats the best part.
If you have doubts of how NIIT runs even these days I can give you live examples as I still recommend and see people benefit from NIIT but yes you are right, it also matters as to who runs the NIIT centers in a particular place.
But as a student you can demand to have things done for you.
Well the first year on PP at Polaris through NIIT was for INR4K per month but still it was very vital for me at that time to get into a job. In a year I got confirmed for a package of Rs185000/- a year. Well in 2004-2005 this was a good starter pay.
Holding an MCA helped me to get promotions earlier in the second year of service.
Hmm
Frankly, I am from the other side of the world. Havig access to computers since I was 14 year old.
I was a science student with computers in school and now have completed my BCA.
For people like me. NIIT doesn’t work. It offers nothing new apart from what we learn in college and my degree is enough to get me through IBM, DELL, TCS.
I have been placed with iGate with a 2L package wich is a defacto for dreshers these days but I may go for my higher studies now.
In yourcase, it’s different as you were not a comp sci student and I assume that’s were all the help you got from niit has come in handy.
And yes, I did Advanced Java. J2EE. It was pathetic. I learned on my own later and currently I work freelance as a web developer.
Anyways, it was a good discussion and welcome to programmingkid.
I forgot to mention you why I cannot accept NIIT to have not done anything extra. The reason – Well I was a BSc. Biochemistry graduate with no exposure to computers even at school. Graduation did not have Mathematics in it.
Still I joined NIIT to learn Swift India course for MS Word Excel powerpoint stuff. This was for a medical representative job which required me to submit electonic transcripts. Only with the guidance and confidence that NIIT gave me to switch fields I changed my field and joined a MCA course after 6 months of NIIT courses.(I enrolled for IGNIIT through Bhavishya jyoti scholarship – 2 months after the Swift India course). I did iGNIIT and MCA side by side by the end of the MCA course I got a job. While it took nearly 6-12 months for my other MCA colleagues to get jobs from reputed organisations after a few job hoppings and lobbying from one recruitment agency to another for a while.
At that time they all told me how lucky I was. I surely was, because my family needed me to have got into a job by then. Without NIIT I would never have tried my hand on computers.
Ok today its all IT all the way but even then I might have been a IT end user but not a IT Analyst if it was not for NIIT then.
I am not exagerating or advocating for NIIT but it worked for me.
Regards,
Shankar Raj.J
That’s nice. You worked hard and deserve all the credit. All the best
I forgot to mention you why I cannot accept NIIT to have not done anything extra. The reason – Well I was a BSc. Biochemistry graduate with no exposure to computers even at school. Graduation did not have Mathematics in it.
Still I joined NIIT to learn Swift India course for MS Word Excel powerpoint stuff. This was for a medical representative job which required me to submit electonic transcripts. Only with the guidance and confidence that NIIT gave me to switch fields I changed my field and joined a MCA course after 6 months of NIIT courses.(I enrolled for IGNIIT through Bhavishya jyoti scholarship – 2 months after the Swift India course). I did iGNIIT and MCA side by side by the end of the MCA course I got a job. While it took nearly 6-12 months for my other MCA colleagues to get jobs from reputed organisations after a few job hoppings and lobbying from one recruitment agency to another for a while.
At that time they all told me how lucky I was. I surely was, because my family needed me to have got into a job by then. Without NIIT I would never have tried my hand on computers.
Ok today its all IT all the way but even then I might have been a IT end user but not a IT Analyst if it was not for NIIT then.
I am not exagerating or advocating for NIIT but it worked for me.
Regards,
Shankar Raj.J
That’s nice. You worked hard and deserve all the credit. All the best
hi friend
u say that why a scjp certified person will come and teach in niit
check their bio data they would have compulsory worked in some companey and developed a project and every person will have some goal may be that trainer wants to teach who knows
hi friend
u say that why a scjp certified person will come and teach in niit
check their bio data they would have compulsory worked in some companey and developed a project and every person will have some goal may be that trainer wants to teach who knows
Hi programming kid my self is amit kumar and i wanted to join NIIT patna branch is my decision is alright.
And if it is not right then suggest me the institute and college for B.sc IT my intermidate percentage is 52% approx and 32 no. In math.
Hi programming kid my self is amit kumar and i wanted to join NIIT patna branch is my decision is alright.
And if it is not right then suggest me the institute and college for B.sc IT my intermidate percentage is 52% approx and 32 no. In math.
you are one o the most stupid and unlukiest person in this worl who came to niit and gained NOTHING… Pathetic…
you are one o the most stupid and unlukiest person in this worl who came to niit and gained NOTHING… Pathetic…
Mr. programming kid, i agree with you completely. Its not only with NIIT but many such institutes in India. Every resources they provide as study materials are worst books in comparison to ebooks i found over the net which are awesome. These are completely profit earning organizations. You will see one thing in common in all of them, 100% Job Placement, a recommended tag line. and yeah if you go to join one then they will say the class are going to begin tomorrow and this is the last day of the payment, from next day prices will increase. i wish Government could have done something about it.
And as for -Shankar Raj.J and sushil- these guys seems to be employees of NIIT, one can clearly understand.
Hi,
I am sorry I don’t work for NIIT. Infact I did decline a job from NIIT Technologies.
See as an educational institute it had some purpose and it worked for my good.
They are not running an institute for charity, so do we as students need to question if we feel we are deprived of the promise they make.
NIIT provides N number of courses and we choose betting on one for our career. I just presented what worked for me and what initiative I had to put in it to make it work for me.
If you find something won’t work out for you not just NIIT there are things to bear in mind.
1) This is a institute that has delivered for some in the genuine sense.
2) May be the course, the pace and methodology does not suite you or make you believe it would work for you.
3) May be you do not want to give in or listen to the details and think of ways to make it happen to you. You are hell bent to criticise than accept it as a goal to do the course and benefit from it.
4) You are in a state of dilema just because you have already acquired a combination of skills to earn a job and you are seeking for an extra edge and not sure which to choose and whether NIIT has it. You need to believe in yourself, you might have already got enough knowledge to get a job. NIIT or some other institute may have the trump card or the keys to your glorious future. Or you already have it in your pocket. The door is infront of you you need to be the One to open not just try to believe. “DO it the Matrix NEO style!”
People out here please don’t jump into assumptions when someone tells a institute works. Or think the person who posts works for that firm.
I just did not like NIITs image being tarnished, because as a brand they have stood the testing times till date. They do have business motives and we do have our financial constraints and timelines to get jobs. And we have been made fun of and fooled by many institutes, that make us write of every institute by prejudice.
Somehow my mind and heart doesn’t give up for NIIT, as I did experience its warmth. Because I am what I am because they too played a part in my career.
“I reiterate, I do not Say NIIT alone did it. They too did make it happen.”
Mr. programming kid, i agree with you completely. Its not only with NIIT but many such institutes in India. Every resources they provide as study materials are worst books in comparison to ebooks i found over the net which are awesome. These are completely profit earning organizations. You will see one thing in common in all of them, 100% Job Placement, a recommended tag line. and yeah if you go to join one then they will say the class are going to begin tomorrow and this is the last day of the payment, from next day prices will increase. i wish Government could have done something about it.
And as for -Shankar Raj.J and sushil- these guys seems to be employees of NIIT, one can clearly understand.
Hi,
I am sorry I don’t work for NIIT. Infact I did decline a job from NIIT Technologies.
See as an educational institute it had some purpose and it worked for my good.
They are not running an institute for charity, so do we as students need to question if we feel we are deprived of the promise they make.
NIIT provides N number of courses and we choose betting on one for our career. I just presented what worked for me and what initiative I had to put in it to make it work for me.
If you find something won’t work out for you not just NIIT there are things to bear in mind.
1) This is a institute that has delivered for some in the genuine sense.
2) May be the course, the pace and methodology does not suite you or make you believe it would work for you.
3) May be you do not want to give in or listen to the details and think of ways to make it happen to you. You are hell bent to criticise than accept it as a goal to do the course and benefit from it.
4) You are in a state of dilema just because you have already acquired a combination of skills to earn a job and you are seeking for an extra edge and not sure which to choose and whether NIIT has it. You need to believe in yourself, you might have already got enough knowledge to get a job. NIIT or some other institute may have the trump card or the keys to your glorious future. Or you already have it in your pocket. The door is infront of you you need to be the One to open not just try to believe. “DO it the Matrix NEO style!”
People out here please don’t jump into assumptions when someone tells a institute works. Or think the person who posts works for that firm.
I just did not like NIITs image being tarnished, because as a brand they have stood the testing times till date. They do have business motives and we do have our financial constraints and timelines to get jobs. And we have been made fun of and fooled by many institutes, that make us write of every institute by prejudice.
Somehow my mind and heart doesn’t give up for NIIT, as I did experience its warmth. Because I am what I am because they too played a part in my career.
“I reiterate, I do not Say NIIT alone did it. They too did make it happen.”