Reposting because original post got deleted anf this needs to reach more people.
Recently i came across someone who earns nearly ~ 3 crores in a year through his side hustle of teaching big data over the weekend. He has a regular job on weekdays
Details of his course:
- Teaches HDFS, Hive, Spark and overview of aws big data tools over 150 hours (3+3 hours over weekend for 25 weeks)
- There are morning and evening batches
- So a total of 4 batches yearly
- Course is offered at an average price of 16k
- Every batch has 500 students
- Majority of them are people from non IT aiming to switch to big data
How does he get 500 people to join for every batch?
- Every time you refer someone to his course, you get 2k as referral bonus. I have screenshots of him showing that 500 referrals are cleared their referral bonus in the last 4 batches
- So on an average he gets 14k from each of those 500 students
- That is 70 lakh per batch and 2.8 crores per year! Out of this, his costs include salary to one person who sends messages to students
- Rest is all his income. No Gst paid on any of these. Not even income tax
- A ca friend of mine looked into his company financials through third party tools and it says the company only earns a lakh per year! God, I love India
Referral model is how he gets all his students
- Most of these people just refer any one lost or confused so that can make 2k per referral
Speaking of the course, I am sure there are positives, but I don’t even find it of even udemy level ( I accessed his session recordings on website using a friend’s login and went through them over two weeks )
- Most of the students don’t know sql and yet they are taught hive and spark-sql syntax directly
- He taught spark without using the word partitions even once!
- They never wrote a program in life. They are expected to learn scala on their own and follow his course which is based on scala spark
- Assignments are just re running the code he gave during next lecture
Most important aspect is that
- he provides resume templates so that everyone can mention 2-4 years of big data experience on resume
- A contact of a fake company to provide fake salary slips and experience letter is also provided. Again, god, I love India.
I know I might have sounded like a salty jealous guy. I don’t have any problem with him becoming rich. But my main problem is that how gullible people are wasting money and time over his course. People are shown the carrot of 2k referral bonus and they are just referring anyone
Company name: Zeyobron
You can google the company and contact him directly. He will provide you a link to a youtube video explaining the hours. This video even mentions about fake experience
If any of your friends wish to join it, please ask them to take a wise call before blindly joining the course
