Assam's Youth Working as Security Guard Gets Hired as Techie, Shares Experiences

GUWAHATI: One has very rightly said, "Its never to late to start something new."

Here is a story of a young boy from Assam who without any formal education on coder made it to the list of among few to be a successful carrier in the technical language of computer science.

Alim, a resident of Assam, said in a LinkedIn post that he left his home in 2013 with Rs 1,000 in his pocket. Out of that, he spent Rs 800 on a train ticket. He said he roamed the streets for two months before he was given a job at the security desk in Zoho's office in Chennai.

Here is the extract from the post-

One day, one of the senior employees of the company, asked my name and said - Alim, I can see something in your eyes (sounds filmy I know). He asked me about my studies and my computer knowledge.

In school, I learned a little bit of HTML. Then he asked me If I want to learn more, and this is how My learning began.

Since every day after completing my 12 hours security shift, I went to the senior and learned.

About eight months, I created a small app. An app that takes the user input and visualizes it. The senior employee showed the app to his manager and he liked it. He asked if it is possible to interview me.

I thought I will not be interviewed ever because I did not go to any college and studied only will 10th. He told that in Zoho You don't need a college degree, What matters here is you and your skills.

And the day came, gave the interview and ..passed it.

Today it is my 8th year in Zoho Corporation.

I want to thank Shibu Alexis (the senior employee) for all the knowledge and lessons and Zoho Corporation for allowing me to prove myself.

And on the final note, It is never too late to start learning.

In a follow-up post, he said, "I wanted to write more. But due to the character limit in LinkedIn, I had to shorten the post. And I am sorry for my poor English, I was in a different medium in the school (Assamese). And English was a bouncer subject for me. Thank you everyone for your kind words (sic)."

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