Sorry for the lack of posts lately, it’s the same old boring excuse….too busy working
To keep you up to date, in the last few months we hired 2 more people, one to help our front end team (html/jscript/design) and another one to boost our Zend framework capabilities. And we’re happy to tell you it makes a difference. We can take more projects now! (is it really a good thing, i don’t know….haha)
On top of this, we’ve made a big leap in terms of projects, taking bigger and more complex jobs. I’ll tell you more about one of them in the next post, but let’s just say our choice of platforms is really paying off a year later. The decision to go with Silverstripe for our CMS, Magento for e-commerce and Zend for all custom development looks like a good choice now.
Finally, the other exciting thing for us is the diversity of clients we signed, not only in regards to industry but also geography. We now have clients in Paris France, Sydney Australia and New York City. Our Canadian clients still provide the majority of projects but it is shifting slowly and surely to a more diverse and global portfolio. Which is something always fun no? It would be nice to have a “local” Asian client too. We’ve been trying but the stars have not been aligned yet
Next step? Find a new office. 8 Months later our “new” one is already too small. After the move we think we will have a good balance now (projects, people, revenues, enjoy what we do) so our objective will be to keep it going like this for a while.
That’s what we said 8 months ago.
Rock and roll!
We are looking for kick-ass PHP developers, preferably Zend framework people.
If you are a passionate PHP Web Programmer looking for a chance to make your mark in a company in Chiang Mai with outstanding growth opportunities, one2crowd is the place for you!
We work in a truly collaborative environment where every individual is equally important. We value exchange and constant communication. We work hard but play hard too. No employee has ever left the company so we must be doing something good no? (Probably because we pay well too eh eh…)
Please submit examples of work so we can judge your expertise, send us your CV and portfolio/examples to jobs@one2crowd.com
Very interesting article in ZDNet Asia on working with Chinese web developers
Interesting because we could pretty much apply the same to our own experience here in Thailand. People are different, think differently and work differently. Let’s try to apply a bit of humor here (in no way we are saying westerners are better….we are simply different, and we really mean it)
Here are the 3 main elements of the article:
Different definition of “work completion”: For westerners, a project is completed when the final copy is approved, when the final pixel is aligned, when the size of the page is optimized (and when our developers roll their eyes 6 times a day at us). In China (and Thailand), a project is completed when it’s running and doing the job. The rest are technicalities and details.
Developers decide what final software should be: “Ok why do you input this function?” “Because it’s better”. ” “Hmmm….but it’s not in the requirements” Blank stare. “Why didn’t you ask me before doing it?” Blank stare….”Ok thank you”. (Note to self: I’m a Zen master, I’m a Zen master, I’m a…..)
Keeping quiet about problems. Nothing to add here ; )
How do we solve these issues? We use the oldest trick in the book.
We talk.
And guess what, it works. We’re 2 French Canadians working with Thais, using English to communicate between ourselves, and it works. It took a bit of adjustment but we can honestly say we’re on par with any Western companies now. Jing Jing