MCA

Hello!
I answered this question with the help of my Brother. I have an MCA post graduate degree. I had a totally messed up education and I did a B.Com for graduation. Fact is, I love programming, which I realised after 2 years in to B.Com. For a person like me, it was not that difficult to do MCA and many of my friends says that it is a repetition of what they have already learnt. If you are from the same field, I wouldn't recommend MCA. I read in the answers that some of them got placed in MNCs only after doing MCA. which I feel is a total waste of your energy and time. I would invest in genuine experience rather than working in MNCs. If getting into an MNC is your life goal or MCA is just a 3 letter word which you would like to have with your name, you could go for MCA (It helps in your life, especially in matrimonial sites). If you are serious about software development, I would recommend you to try to get into any startups and gain 3 years of experience rather than wasting 3 years on MCA. as it is a repetition of what you know. A little bit about my background. I graduated in 2013 and this is the third job in startups in my 3 years of experience. Ive experience in end-to-end development of a software and Ive had the opportunity to handle entire apps from back-end to front-end alone. I used to work for around 12 hours a day during the phases where the pay was too low to survive. Life could be easier in MNCs, but I believe that my experience could pay off at some point of life. I never cared about the name or reputation of the company, but I believe that it gave me some genuine opportunities, which I would have missed if I had chosen some support jobs I was offered in the past. I earn lesser than most of my friends. It is hard, considering the responsibilities I have. Every single day, I hear someone hinting that the job in this non-reputed companies would destroy my future. I don't mind. What is the point without taking some risks? I used to try many things on my own and now I am kind of a full-stack developer (Im not a big fan of my design skills). I believe that in this field, you can learn a lot from experience than you can learn from universities. Im not a big fan of learning methodologies in India. My philosophy is that an honest effort in a degree will let you know what is there to know in this field. Excel in your field and no one will ignore you. Thank you.