When we needed DevOps engineers for our own work, we kept hitting the same wall: freshers with certificates and enthusiasm, but not the foundation the job actually demands. The talent we wanted simply wasn't in the market.
So we stopped waiting and started building it, training freshers from the ground up into field-ready engineers.
It worked. Some of the best people on our team came through our own program, and that's still the whole idea: build the engineers we'd want to hire.