When Idealist Software Architect Meet Reality

My name is Vishwas. I am a software architect. I recently joined this new organization. Actually, they hired me because they were impressed with my work in the tech community. It seems they are going to get a big client project soon, and they want to make sure that the project is successful. I am also excited to work on this project. I know there is another architect (Syam) in the team who is working there for the last five years.

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Oh yeah, Indian Software Developers Code Sucks!!!

In India, there is a news channel called TVx. Whenever they don’t have any other interesting news to grab people attention, they start telecasting their all-time favorite programs like Is the world is going to end in 2048? or Is Mayan’s prediction about world ending is right? or Is IT employees are suffering from psychological problems? etc. In the same way, some websites keep writing articles like Code produced by Indians is bad quality or The Indian programmer myth etc for every 6 months.

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Just for fun

Having some fun is absolutely necessary in these COVID-19 times to relax a bit :-) In the final round of interview when the interviewer told you that you will be working on building a microservices based platform and you can help in setting up infrastructure using Kubernetes too, if you are interested… After joining when they put you in a 15-year-old project and start assigning low priority bugs opened in 2008… While onboarding the HR folks singing how a cool a typical day in their organization is and that engineering manager showing you how agile their work culture is… When you show your quick prototype and business folks liked it and asked you to make sure it works fine on Chrome, Firefox, Safari and IE11 and be ready to give a demo by Friday and went on to dance floor… Those senior developers who neither gets excited about new technologies nor worry to work on JSF 1.

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