Pramod's Jobaaj Learnings Review: From Analyst to Data Analytics at EY

"I found it while Googling for online data analytics courses. I read the reviews, checked the course content, and also looked into the mentors' backgrounds. Everything just clicked for me." — Pramod

Pramod was born and brought up in Mumbai and completed his engineering in Information Technology at a college in Chembur. He worked as an analyst using Tableau, SQL and Python — until the project ended and he had to resign. While job hunting, he enrolled in Jobaaj Learnings' Data & Business Analytics Program to deepen skills he already had in part. He is now placed at EY (Ernst & Young).

If you are searching “is Jobaaj Learnings genuine”, “is Jobaaj real or fake” or “is the data analytics course worth it”, read Pramod's account for what it actually is: a working analyst between jobs using a course to deepen existing Tableau and SQL skills, who then landed at EY. He rates the course content 10/10 and names his mentor. He does not describe the placement process, his job title at EY, or a salary — so what this evidences is the training, not a placement pipeline. Read it alongside the other conversations in our Interview Series and the wider feedback on the reviews page.

Who Is Pramod? An Analyst Between Projects

Pramod is from Mumbai and completed his engineering in Information Technology at a college in Chembur. After graduating he worked as an analyst, and his stack there is the same one the course teaches:

• Tableau
• SQL
• Python

Then the project ended. In his words: “Once that project ended and I had to resign, I started looking for a new opportunity.”

That is the situation he was in when he enrolled — an experienced analyst out of work because a project closed, not a beginner entering the field. Worth holding onto when reading the outcome.

How He Chose the Course

Pramod's selection process is worth copying regardless of which programme you end up choosing:

"I found it while Googling for online data analytics courses. I read the reviews, checked the course content, and also looked into the mentors' backgrounds."

Three checks — reviews, syllabus, and who is actually teaching it. The third is the one most people skip, and given that his strongest praise is for a specific mentor's teaching, it is the one that paid off for him.

His stated reason for enrolling despite already knowing the tools: “I was already familiar with some tools like Tableau and SQL, but I wanted to gain deeper knowledge — especially for long-term career growth.”

What He Rated Most Highly

• Shiva's sessions. His description: detailed and very beginner-friendly — and he notes that a fresher would find them easy to follow.
• Weekend live classes. “They made complex topics much easier to understand.” Engaging, and they simplified the material.
• Excel practice sheets after class. He calls these “super helpful” — a small, unglamorous detail, and the sort of thing that only gets mentioned when it genuinely made a difference.

Asked to rate the course content out of 10, he gave a full 10: “The course content was exactly what I needed.”

Note the scope of that rating. He was asked specifically about course content, and that is what he rated. He was not asked to rate placement support, and he does not describe it anywhere in this conversation.

Can Someone Without a Technical Background Do This?

Pramod was asked this twice, and his answers were consistent:

On needing to be strong in Excel first: “Honestly, no. I believe anyone with the curiosity to learn and a basic understanding of Excel can start. The course is designed to take you from basics to advanced level.”

On starting from zero: “Yes, absolutely. You can start from scratch. The course gives you a new way of learning, and the support system helps you build your foundation from the basics.”

The Outcome: Placed at EY

Pramod is now placed at EY (Ernst & Young). That is the extent of what the conversation records:

A named employer of that size is real, checkable evidence. But the mechanism — whether placement support sourced the role or he found it himself — is simply not covered in this conversation, and we are not going to fill the gap with an assumption.

Pros and Cons, Based on Pramod's Account

What worked:

• Teaching he rates as detailed and accessible even for freshers
• Weekend live classes that made complex material tractable
• Excel practice sheets issued after each session, so the learning was applied not just watched
• Course content he rates a full 10/10 against what he needed
• Depth added to tools he already used professionally

Data Analyst Interview Questions and Model Answers

Walk us through a recent project using data analytics tools.

Model answer: A sales analysis identifying regional trends and top-performing products — SQL to clean and filter the data, Excel for quick calculations and sanity checks, and Tableau to build dashboards showing sales distribution and profitability by region. The useful part was not the dashboard but deciding which two questions it needed to answer.

Write a query to fetch the second highest salary.

Model answer: The straightforward version, which works on any SQL dialect:

SELECT MAX(salary) AS second_highest_salary
FROM employees
WHERE salary < (SELECT MAX(salary) FROM employees);

Be ready to follow up on how you would handle ties, or generalise it to the Nth highest using a window function.

How do you handle missing data?

Model answer: It depends on how much is missing and whether the gaps look random. If minimal and random, dropping the rows is defensible. If substantial, mean or median imputation, forward-fill for time series, or a domain-informed value — but state which you used, because the choice changes what the analysis is allowed to claim.

What's the difference between INNER JOIN and LEFT JOIN?

Model answer: INNER JOIN returns only rows that match in both tables. LEFT JOIN returns every row from the left table, with NULLs in the right table's columns where there is no match — which is how you find the records that are missing a match, not just the ones that have one.

Which Excel functions do you use most?

Model answer: VLOOKUP and INDEX-MATCH, IF, SUMIFS, COUNTIFS, and pivot tables for cleaning, filtering and aggregating. Excel is also where I validate SQL output — recomputing a figure a second way catches errors that reviewing the query does not.

Have you used BI tools other than Tableau?

Model answer: My hands-on depth is in Tableau, with some exposure to Power BI. The underlying concepts — data model, measures, filters, drill-downs — carry across, so picking up a team's existing tool is a matter of weeks rather than months.

What makes a good dashboard?

Model answer: Clean, interactive, and it tells a story. It should answer the business's key questions without burying them in charts. Filters and tooltips so the reader can interrogate it themselves, clear KPI framing, and nothing on the canvas that nobody would act on.

What Pramod's Experience Suggests

• Research the mentors, not just the syllabus. He did — and the teaching is what he ended up rating highest.
• A course is a reasonable move between jobs. He enrolled after a project ended, using the gap to deepen skills rather than only applying.
• Practice material matters more than lecture hours. The Excel practice sheets are among the three things he singles out.
• Depth beats breadth if you already know the tools. He knew Tableau and SQL and enrolled specifically to go deeper.
• Ask about placement support separately. His 10/10 is for course content; the placement side is not covered here, so verify it independently.

Full Podcast Transcript

The complete conversation, unedited.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Jobaaj Learnings genuine, or is it fake?

This page documents one recorded case: Pramod, an IT engineering graduate and working analyst, who took the Data & Business Analytics Program between jobs and is now placed at EY. The employer is named on camera and he rates the course content 10/10. His job title, salary and how the opportunity reached him are not stated. See the wider review set on the reviews page.

Did the course get him the job at EY?

The conversation does not say. He is asked to rate the course content, not the placement support, and never describes how the EY opportunity came about. What is evidenced here is the training.

Can you get into data analytics without a technical background?

Pramod's view is yes — curiosity and basic Excel are enough to start, and the course runs from basics to advanced. Bear in mind that he is an IT engineering graduate who had already worked as an analyst, so that is his assessment of the material rather than a report of his own path.

What's the most useful part of the course?

For Pramod: the weekend live classes, his mentor's teaching style, and the Excel practice sheets provided after each session.

Is the course useful if you already know SQL and Tableau?

That was exactly Pramod's position. He enrolled to deepen tools he already used professionally, and rated the content a full 10 against what he needed.

How should I evaluate an online analytics course before enrolling?

Pramod's own method: read the reviews, check the course content in detail, and research the mentors' backgrounds — the last being the one he ended up valuing most.