Korean tech firms offer best software engineer training programs

[Source: KT]

Software developer training programs run by tech firms in South Korea have proved to be the best incubating center for future software engineers.

Of all students who have completed a six-month KT’s AIVLE School for training experts in software development in the first half of 2022, 80 percent succeeded in getting jobs. The success rate of landing a job matches that of computer engineering students graduated from Seoul National University, the top school in Korea. The school’s graduates recorded 86 percent in 2020.

Other software engineer training programs run by tech giants, including Samsung Electronics and SAP, are equally successful in training job seekers as professional programmers.

[Source : Samsung Global Newsroom]

Samsung SW Academy For Youth (SSAFY), which Samsung Electronics launched in 2018, has recorded 74 percent in the rate of its students landing a job as software engineers. A total of 3,486 students have been hired by 840 companies after completing the SSAFY training program, with 36 percent of them coming from a non-engineering educational background.

SAP, a German multinational software company, is operating Young Next Cloud Academy in Korea, training jobseekers as professional software engineers. A total of 150 students completed the course in the first year of the academy. The rate of students landing a job was recorded at 80.3 percent, with the figure for those without previous education in software engineering marking 83 percent.

Among the game developers in Korea, Krafton is running a training program called Jungle. It recently selected 60 students for a five-month training program, covering from an introductory computer science class to a high-level software operating system project class.