Free Tech Job 9 to 9 by Dilshad Mustafa

here?” asked Himesh.
    “IT firms like
Holtezent specialize in providing these services and supply the staff for doing
the IT jobs to its clients like Dochamk Bank. This provides a mutually
beneficial arrangement between Holtezent and its clients. IT job had become a
demanding and stressful job due to the high-level of collaborative work
involved, tight project timelines, reduction in number of quality staff and fewer
number of resources deployed to increase profit margin and under funding in
project budget due to budget cuts at client end,” said Ashutosh.
    “Look at the
work environment. You might get blamed every hour for no fault of yours.
Imagine if you are shouted at for somebody’s mistake. This is a business
environment where each minute counts. Each hour is paid and the work expected
from you is at least two person’s work. This is a blame oriented work
environment where they always suspect you are not working and slacking out,” continued
Ashutosh.
    “Not everyone
will have the emotional quotient to sustain the emotions and stress involved
while working in this kind of blame oriented work environment. Not everyone
will be able to adapt and survive in this work environment. Just think of it,
doing at least two people work, sweat yourself out every minute and absorb all
the blame thrown at you. Some people might get fear to come to workplace and
work the next day,” said Ashutosh.
    “But we have
to. There is no other way for us,” said Vinay.
    “Yes that is
why we are doing it right now. But how long we will be able to survive in such
a harsh work environment?” said Ashutosh.
    “What is this
emotional quotient?” asked Himesh.
    “It’s just a
measure of your emotional intelligence. Emotional intelligence is how good you
are in reigning in your emotions at the workplace. But having a good emotional
quotient doesn’t mean you can overcome stress at workplace. It will at least
enable you to stay cool and have some sanity in a hostile work environment,”
explained Ashutosh.
    Vinay had
written around ten KLOC of code for one module but the logging and reporting
functions were not ready yet. Himesh was working on those functions and he
would take another three days to complete. Vinay had already reported the
status of the ten KLOC code as completed, but refactoring the code to use
Himesh’s functions would take another four days work for him. When Vinay
explained this to Nitesh in the status call, Nitesh cut him off saying Vinay
had to stretch extra hours every day and complete the work and those four days
work would not be counted.
    KLOC stood for
Kilo Lines Of Code which referred to a thousand lines of code. Ten KLOC meant
ten thousand lines of code. Refactoring of code referred to changing the
structure of code, data, function calls and modules. As more and more
functionalities were implemented, more details would emerge and it would become
clear that certain code and data had to be restructured for a better design.
    Ashutosh told
Vinay and Himesh that usually design was carried out in the design stage and
would result in two levels of design, high-level design aka HLD and low-level design
aka LLD. No matter how much work was put into designing in the design stage, it
would still be revisited when the ground realities change which happened often.
There were many times during design stage one file format was given but when
they started working on a module, a sample file was given to them which
differed vastly from the file format given earlier.
    Vinay, Himesh
and Ashutosh found that many tasks assigned to them were estimated as four
hours. But when they started working on those tasks, they found that R&D
work was required and they could not complete within the estimated hours. When
they raised this concern to the management, they were told that efforts had
been estimated by SME team who had prior experience in these types of projects.
They were told to stretch extra hours every day and complete the