Davos 2024: McKinsey India's Noshir Kaka on the skill that future engineers should have: 'Code review'. Watch

Noshir Kaka further believed that engineering workforces would not fall in future and felt that the inclusion of software in every product will surge, in the coming years.

The ever-changing landscape in the world of technology demands students and professionals to continue staying up-to-date with knowledge of the latest tools, in a bid to keep producing the best results.

Speaking to Moneycontrol at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Managing Director of McKinsey India Noshir Kaka emphasised the need for engineering students to learn code review and spoke about the role and the impact of generational artificial intelligence (AI) in today's times.

"The skills of the future, for example today if you look at developers worldwide not just in India only by some estimates, only 11 per cent can do a code review. Everyone writes code, but only 11 per cent of people can do a good code review."

"What means is that if you deploy generational AI for junior developers, without any training, their productivity actually goes down, doesn't go up. So the entire reskilling to actually code review, not just prompt engineering, is actually a fundamental skill," Kaka said.

Kaka further believed that engineering workforces would not fall in future and felt that the inclusion of software in every product will surge, in the coming years.

"Your second question is: do we anticipate a significant decline in engineering workforces? I don't personally and the reason for that is we have seen throughout history, anything where the cost of something goes down demand goes through the roof."

"So I think what you are going to see is more and more software getting put into every single product as we see around us, but you are going to see that software being written by different companies and different individuals," he added.

You can watch the full interview below: