#trainingprogram

We went through Cloud Cert Fest and Skill Academy programs with the expectation that cloud training would translate into meaningful internal opportunities and role stability within the bank.

Instead, cloud outcomes remain largely undelivered, while many trained engineers have been impacted by layoffs and organizational restructuring. In parallel, roles are increasingly being filled through external hiring, including engineers from Amazon and JP Morgan Chase.

This cloud cert fest ran by R.B, working in the bank . We all are laid off.
This raises a difficult but important question about alignment between upskilling investments and actual workforce planning—especially when training programs are positioned as a pathway to job security, yet the outcomes tell a different story.
Do DV and GK have visibility into this situation? What is the real status of Skill Academy and Cloud Cert Fest outcomes?

Anyone using EDX/UDEMY to "skill up"? What courses are you considering or have started already?

https://www.moneycontrol.com/europe/?url=https://www.moneycontrol.com/technology/ibm-announces-plan-to-skill-5-million-people-in-india-over-the-next-five-years-article-13733676.html

Got the 'Engineering with AI Program' company email... talk about out of touch. Most engineers in our BU have been smashed on the head, over and over, about use AI for this or use AI for that... and now we're being told that we need hands on training sessions? Talk about a tone deaf company.

one thing i actually miss from my time in sales is those endles online trainings.

they were never abot learning. it was all about pretending. the training team would upload a new course, send an email, and give us a deadline about a month away.

and for 29 whole days nobody on the sales team even looked at it. ignoring it was almost a point of pride. then on day 30 the alarms went off. an email from the boss, marked urgent, full of capital letters and exclamation marks. suddenly it was a crisis.

so we’d all log in, open the training, and click through slide after slide without reading a single word. nobody cared about the content. the only goal was to reach the quiz at the end.

most quizzes needed 80 percent or better to pass. we didn’t study, we just guessed. sometimes someone got lucky on the first try, and then they’d share the answers with everyone else. if you failed, no big deal. you could just keep trying until you passed.

once in a while the system only gave you three tries. that always made me laugh. like what’s supposed to happen if we fail all three? do we get fired on the spot? does the computer lock up forever? nothing ever happened, of course.

in the end, the whole thing was a game. not about learning, not about improving, just about checking a box. and somehow, that’s exactly what made it memorable.