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Passion, a particular tech. issue

With my work as chief technical officer, I come to work with a bunch of people, all over the world, Pakistan, India, Israel, Romania, Ukraine etc.

I was observing these last few months the work of one of our offices, in Romania, where there is no director for a long time now. And sadly I cannot see any enthusiasm in most of the developers of this particular technical office, as well as no desire to contribute whatsoever to the success of our products. The main interest I believe (like millions of workers), is to get their pay at the end of each month.

As I believe that development is a form of Art. This being that we create code, even if for other, we can create the shape of it, well… I just see empty shells taking 10 times what it should take to construct: And there is nothing more frustrating. Of course, without a manager over there, the main issue is that there is no creation of passion.

If I compare this office, to the office I fully manage in London for instance: here, people have passion and want to work very hard to achieve, as they see a goal and vision. The issue outsourcing (because even if we manage the office in Romania, it’s just them being like an offshore company at this time.), is that the guys are hired guns and it’s very hard to communicate a vision to them.

I will try to take the goal now to continue, even if there is no manager over there, to try to communicate my goals : the need for speed as well as the need to create good software, with enthusiasm. While of course searching for this COO that could be an extension of my mind, in Romania.

Just for information, I have been going back and forth in Romania for the last 10 years, and just really appreciate the people of the small city of Timisoara. But sadly, lately, that particular office in average, has let me down in term of my technical goals.

It’s likely a post that I will update at time. Hopefully, I will come to enjoy again working with that particular office.

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