Enrico Foschi’s official blog

Sadly, this week is my last one in Ammado Internet Services ltd., in the office of Pearse Street in Dublin.

I’ll miss this company so much!

I think Ammado worth the price of one of the best company to work for. I’ve worked for 5 different companies and I thought it could be very difficult to find one that I could enjoy more than RMG Connect S.r.l. in Italy. But this is.

I’ve never found a such enjoyable working time like in here, bosses and managers that look at your values instead of your preseenteism. I had a wonderful time with my colleagues. Apart from being funny and happy, it is also a wonderful learning place because of the high skill-sets of every employee.

If I could go back in the past, I would have applied for Ammado again. And I hope to collaborate with them again.

Unluckily, I’m leaving just few months before it will explode: in a few months time, you will hear about Ammado.com through different media and it will become the reference point for the ethical web.

This will be the results of a wonderful management, a strong organization and of the devotion of any single employee, that can see the results of his own effort in a so largely spread community.

Thank you, Ammado. In particular, many thanks to:

- Sean: the Agile man (or better, Scrum master). He was my manager. Well focused on technical and organizational issues and always able to manage the organization. Never lost his temper even in the toughest scenarios. Always available to help every single employee in trouble and never blaming anybody. Anyway, he promised I could listen to his wife playing jazz-piano (she should be a very very good player), but I’m still waiting….

- Peter Conlon, the founder and financer of the project. It was AWESOME to see a billion-dollar-man working hardly with us in the office, as he is one of us. He’s not just financing the project, he’s giving all himself to it, like his colleagues Anna, Joe and Column.

- Peter, Ian, Veljko, Keith, Alexey, Dennis, Karl, Octavian, Paul, Slobodan, Philip for their patience, their advices, their supports and their teaching (and their good fellowship)

- Claudiu,Damien, Declan and Monique (BA) for their strong work on organizing features, validating them and their support with the DEV team

- The biz team, for their effort of spreading Ammado culture all over the world

- The IT team, including Charlie, Kevin, Vladim, for their quick support on networking, on cable renting (:p) and anyother stuff office or not office related

- Daniel, probably the smartest guy in the office, for giving me a little understanding of an unusual humor

- Faran, Diarmuid, Mariano, Cormac, Jonathan, Billy, Mark, Damien, Claudiu, Maylon, Catherine, Branislav, Brendan, Fedor, Fili, Frank, James, Miroslav, Paschal, Viktoria, Vladimir, Yahuen, Michal, Andrew, Simon, Larry and all the others: was a pleasure to work with you.

www.ammado.com

Here I am, in my first post, of this blog created just after having signed a contract for working in Microsoft in Dublin!

So glad to be on board of the best company I was dreaming for and to have a chance to give all the best of myself.

As I thought, in the first interview, Microsoft demonstrated to filter heavily the candidates by difficoult theorical questions and complex alghoritm coding problems. As I thought and as I had a chance to talk with few of them, I’ll be working on a place full of geniuses!

Well, I come from a place full of geniuses, Ammado Internet Services Ltd. I am currently working for them now and I’ll end on 14th of March, ready to join Microsoft on tuesday 18th.

We are working on www.ammado.com, a wonderful community that in few months is gonna exploding and is gonna change the world!!! Oh my God! I wish them all the best luck!!!

I’ll be very sad to leave, I’ve such a wonderful relationship with my colleagues and company members that I think I’ll cry the very last day.

Anyway, I’ll start a very strong career in Microsoft and I wonder where I’ll be in few years time!!!