one year in thougtworks

I finished one year in thoughtworks.while looking back , all that I was doing was coding , coding and coding.. hm yes I couldn expiriment of things.. because from my joining date till now, i am working without any rest.. I am working on a highly UI intensive web portal where I am the only one UI dev and around 20 devs. making the mockups ready before the devs start their work was not acutually easy. Most of the time i felt like fumes are coming out from my head, But I could handle everything well.

Here in thoughtworks most of the projects are happening in agile . so while playing the strories , its not page wise, its functinal wise and the integreation of all functionalities which will be played on different time by different devs was bit diifcult initially. Since thoughtworks has something called "pairing" you need to sit with a dev and work with them in the same story. Because of my work load i couldnt do much pairing . And for a person like me who is a designer turned UI dev , pairing would help a lot to know and learn how the backend works . I missed that oppotunity in this project.

One of the best things happened was my client wanted me to come to theie place in boston for the bug fixes and that leads to my first onsite to US. it was for one week and really had a nice time.

The work culture and the team is really good. I am in the third project now under the same client.

I hope i can do and learn more javascript through pairing and looking forward to that.