I did not get one thing, why someone took the post personally? The post is very practical and we should appreciate that rather criticizing it.

Regarding the fact of losing foreign projects and getting involved in local projects, I’d like to mention that we’re NOT just an outsourcing company. We have specific business plan and we’re growing inline with that. We’ve just started with local solutions and will continue to increase our footprint by empowering local companies with solutions that help their business. We will surely work on foreign projects as well – side by side. If you would have been able to come to our office, I’d be able to show you which foreign and which local projects is currently taking place in my company. It’s a pity that you’re leaving tonight.

And I appreciate that you have 22 architects working in your company. We have just started and have a long way to go before I can also take pride of having x number of architects. But for the time being, we have two great teams and we’re working steadily to climb the ladder one step at a time. When we hire someone new in our company, they know where they’re joining, what’s the prospect and what to expect.

Regarding blaming developers for loosing projects, I surely appreciate your viewpoint about management and system designer. However, I’d like to add the point that if the actual programmers don’t contribute in a project, however good management or system design is there, it’s going to fail. An architect can plan a house, a contractor can bring the raw materials, but if the construction workers don’t work, no house will actually get built. And just as a part of sharing, I keep myself as a part of the blaming when project fails and communicate my faults to my developers. They know by heart that Emran did that wrong, we did this wrong and the combined effect did not work as planned.

Lastly, I’d like to mention that if someone senior in our country has referred to me or my company, surely they have reasons to have faith. Please convey my gracious thanks to that person. And also thanks to you for spending the time to reply to the msgs. I hope you have a safe journey.

Wish to meet you next time I come.

And regarding your point of senior role, it’s purely a crap thinking that someone senior cannot touch code and only design architecture. A senior developer knows his/her place and they can come to the level of their co-workers to help them out. I’ve had the chance of working with a number of such great developers and I think I can judge pretty well.

If you still feel that it was my mistake that I couldn’t understand your so called senior developer, why don’t you stop by one day in my office and check their work in person?

Thanks for your time and comment.

Regarding me being wrong, I’d beg to differ from your view. Having experience in so called renowned companies doesn’t make someone a great developer – he/she needs to prove their experience through actual work. A great developer is a performer, not an audience.

I’d ask you one simple question. Who would you prefer: someone with big company names in their resume with very little contribution to his/her job OR someone who might not have a long resume but works his ass off to keep his company’s project in line with expectation ??

Once again, thanks for commenting.

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