How we calculate our placement and salary figures
Every training institute quotes a placement rate. Almost none of them say what the number means. This page explains exactly how ours is produced, and — more usefully — what it leaves out.
The placement rate
When we say “up to 85%”, the two words that matter most are “up to”. That is the best result we have recorded across recent cohorts, not an average across all of them, and not a figure you should assume applies to the batch you join.
The denominator is narrow, and we would rather say so plainly:
- It counts only students who completed the full course — attended at least 90% of live sessions and submitted every project.
- Students who enrolled and dropped out partway are not in the denominator. If they were, the number would be lower.
- “Placed” means the student told us they accepted an offer within three months of finishing.
The data is self-reported by alumni. We do not collect offer letters, and no third party audits any of it. People who land a good role are more likely to tell us than people who are still searching, which pushes any self-reported figure upward — ours included.
The salary ranges
Ranges like 12–16 LPA are self-reported by alumni in post-course surveys. We do not independently verify them. They describe what some graduates have reported earning; they are not a projection of what you will earn.
Actual outcomes vary enormously with prior experience, the city you are hiring into, whether the employer is a service company, product company or GCC, and how you perform in interviews. A career-switcher with no IT background and an engineer with four years of production experience will not land in the same band, and no course changes that.
Salary and market figures in our articles
Separate from our own cohort data: the blog and learn articles quote salary bands, hiring percentages and market statistics. Those come from reading job listings on Naukri and LinkedIn, public aggregator data such as AmbitionBox and Glassdoor, and what our own students report from interviews. They are observations of a market, not survey research, and we have no proprietary dataset behind them.
Two things follow from that. Bands are wide because the reality is wide — the same job title pays differently in Sholinganallur and on Outer Ring Road. And figures drift: a range that was accurate when an article was written can be off within a year. Each article carries the date its figures were last reviewed, under the byline. If that date is old, weigh the numbers accordingly.
If you find a figure that looks wrong, tell us. Email is at the bottom of this page and we would rather correct it than defend it.
What we do not promise
- We do not guarantee a job. Anyone in this industry who does is either redefining the word or selling you something.
- We provide placement assistance: resume review, mock interviews, and referrals where we genuinely have them.
- Hiring decisions belong to employers. We do not control their headcount, their timing, or their bar.
Company names on this site
Where we mention companies, it is to indicate where alumni have gone on to work, or which employers a particular module prepares you to interview with. No mention on this site implies a partnership, endorsement, or hiring agreement with that company.
Testimonials
Testimonials describe one person’s experience. Your experience will differ based on your background, the time you put in, and the market at the moment you start applying.
Ask us for the underlying numbers
If you are considering enrolling and want to check any of this, email training@switchtodevops.com. We will walk you through the cohort data and put you in touch with past students so you can ask them directly rather than taking our word for it.