Hewitt Middle East Best Employer Study

In the last December 2007, this blog hosted a quick survey to measure the different aspects of the software employers inside Egypt. I am glad to announce that there is another independent initiative showing up these days. Hewitt - a provider of HR outsourcing and consulting services - launches the Best Employers in Middle East 2009 study. The study aims to honor the leading organizations of Middle East as outstanding places to work. Hewitt conducts its Best Employer research in a number of markets, including Eastern Europe, Canada, Latin America and Asia. This survey is designed to be the largest employee research project ever undertaken in Middle East. Hewitt invites all the employers in the Middle East to participate in this survey. The survey will show how effective is your organization and wither it provides a workplace that engages the intellectual and emotional commitment of your employees or not. The study will provide a level of confidentiality so that the names of all participating organizations will be strictly confidential at all points of time. The exception will be those organizations that will be honored as a Hewitt Best Employer in Middle East.

Survey Results

In December 29th, a survey were published for public to answer - for more details check this post. Here is the results of the survey:

Download the Survey Results: 2008_Survey_Results.zip

[Update] The attempt should be considered as a start to confirm the benefits of these kind of surveys. The results may appear to have some illogical information. Unfortunately, we have only 150 participants. Needless to say that the more you get participations, the more you get accurate results. But still I promised to publish the results even with this small number of participation. I hope to find more similar and effective attempts in the future from authorized and independent organizations in Egypt.

Survey - The Software Industry Inside Egypt

This survey is one of the first initiatives aims to formulate accurate indicators about the software development industry inside Egypt. The survey will give important information about the current professional level of the software companies. It will try to measure different aspects in the industry like the companies technical level, management, process, salaries and the work environments. The target is to give informative details for the IT stuff to get a clear and transparent information regarding their career.

Please be accurate in your answers as much as you can. Your answer is definitely affect the overall results and the others attitude. The final results will be published here in this blog.

* We don't collect any identity information in this survey.

ANSWER THE SURVEY NOW!

[Update]

[03/2/2008] The survey results have been published. Click here
[31/1/2008] The survey results will be published on Sunday, 3rd February, 2008
[12/1/2008] The survey participation period is extended to 19th Jaunary, 2007

Vote Results: Do you apply design patterns in your software projects?

This is the result of a vote I made later: Do you apply design patterns in your software projects? The question is to illustrate if the developers really care about learning solutions for already predefined problems. Do you really care about using the best solution to solve a problem?

37 people contributed in the vote. The following is a chart representing people votes.

Design Patterns are a collection of patterns documenting successful solutions for specific problems. The term introduced from a long time. Most of the developers uses the patterns in there daily work, but don't really know that it's a predefined design pattern until they read about it. For more information about the topic, I highly recommend this book: "Design Patterns - Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software" by "Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides". For a brief summary about the book, check the Wikipedia Version