It’s a “he” and you need to understand that Andela’s clients does not see it profitable to invest in resources for the processes they outsource to Andela - be it even coding high frequency trading platforms in C. So they strip out the things with are of value and the core of their business then outsource the things that are of no value to a BPO or an educational institution. As Andela grows they will have complete this mindless tasks as fast and cheaply as possible. So after 1 year of working on day and night on C, this guy becomes a C Zombie with no clue of the bigger picture and when the contract finishes, he is totally useless as Amazon that forced him to learn C has already moved on from C. Most BPO will want to maximise the training and the MacBook that they gave to this guy and will then move him immediately to Ruby where the project is already well spec’d if the guy still has the capacity to learn.
10 years later the guy is now 32 and can expertly program 12 different languages and can not think for himself as all he did was churn out code. The BPO dumps him because he is too old and he has a mortgage with 2 kids - He is now a liability. Remember this was one of the brightest guys 10 years ago…
BPOs and all these “educational institutions” are modern day knowledge factories that have to be efficient but unfortunately their equipment are not robots but these unfortunate highly intelligent fresh graduates.
All Andela needs to do is to prove me wrong and only time will tell…