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  "slug": "Effect-of-Inflation-on-IT-company-culture-in-Iran-dd1a5ade1605",
  "title": "Effect of Inflation on IT company culture in Iran",
  "subtitle": "How inflation changes the environment of high-tech technologies in Iran?",
  "excerpt": "How inflation changes the environment of high-tech technologies in Iran?",
  "date": "2023-05-01",
  "tags": [],
  "readingTime": "3 min",
  "url": "https://medium.com/@mobinshaterian/effect-of-inflation-on-it-company-culture-in-iran-dd1a5ade1605",
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  "content": [
    {
      "type": "heading",
      "level": 2,
      "text": "Effect of Inflation on IT company culture in Iran"
    },
    {
      "type": "paragraph",
      "html": "Recruiters ask me several times, <strong>“Why have you changed your job about 13 times?”</strong> or “<strong>Have you had serious problems with your jobs?</strong>” or they wonder “<strong>What’s the matter with you?</strong>”"
    },
    {
      "type": "paragraph",
      "html": "And my simple answer is, “Have you experienced inflation in your country?”"
    },
    {
      "type": "image",
      "src": "https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/800/1*GZZjyiy61IAHvJBK2HD_Iw.png",
      "alt": "https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2019/04/30/inflation-in-iran-is-on-the-rise/",
      "caption": "https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2019/04/30/inflation-in-iran-is-on-the-rise/",
      "width": 796,
      "height": 382
    },
    {
      "type": "paragraph",
      "html": "Citizens of Iran are experiencing over <strong>70% inflation</strong> in only one year, whereas the government only increases about<strong> 25% of the employee’s salary</strong>&nbsp;.It means that these employees will become poorer than before."
    },
    {
      "type": "paragraph",
      "html": "In IT companies, a strange situation exists. On one side, programmers and developers try to find new jobs and recruiters try to keep them with the lowest salary. Despite the fact that The government is keeping young developers how has to do military service and doesn’t let them exit the country, developers try to immigrate to other countries to find better jobs with better salaries."
    },
    {
      "type": "image",
      "src": "https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/800/1*61NSfLjVvPRyFp3VZENKuw.png",
      "alt": "https://tradingeconomics.com/iran/inflation-cpi",
      "caption": "https://tradingeconomics.com/iran/inflation-cpi",
      "width": 730,
      "height": 340
    },
    {
      "type": "paragraph",
      "html": "Even if some developers don’t want to immigrate to other countries, they have to change their jobs, because they have to cover their expenses, which means that they have to change their jobs. In another scenario, some good developers prefer to stay in the company but because of financial problems, they get another project-base from another company. Sometimes they have a side job inside the current company. It will reduce their quality and their attention too. As a developer, we need to improve our knowledge and learn new things but these developers don’t have enough time and their knowledge will expire after two or three years."
    },
    {
      "type": "paragraph",
      "html": "Sometimes developers request to work remotely to reduce transport and meal costs but companies insist on keeping developers physically in the company. It has two main reasons, firstly managers can’t manage their employees, furthermore, the problem is related to the DevOps who have left the company, and the company can’t securely connect remotely."
    },
    {
      "type": "paragraph",
      "html": "The funniest part of these transfers is recruiters don’t want to increase the salary of old developers and hire new ones with higher salaries. It means that they don’t care about their former employees, whereas old employees have good information about the architecture and technology used in their infrastructure. It is ridiculous they don’t care about us, not only us, they don’t even care about their business."
    },
    {
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      "provider": "youtube",
      "url": "https://www.youtube.com/embed/t1pqi8vjTLY?feature=oembed"
    },
    {
      "type": "paragraph",
      "html": "Based on these facts, the Human resource team tries to show a happy environment in their company to keep highly skilled programmers with the lowest salary. Therefore, they celebrate birthday parties or different parties to make their employee happy. I don’t say that these are a bad thing, but the Iranian government forbids these actions. However, these high-tech companies give excellent facilities to the government and strengthen them. Thus sneaky freedom have been given to them."
    },
    {
      "type": "quote",
      "html": "DISC is an acronym that stands for the four main personality profiles described in the DISC model: (D)ominance, (i)nfluence, (S)teadiness and (C)onscientiousness."
    },
    {
      "type": "paragraph",
      "html": "In my humble opinion, most developers have conscientious characteristics, thus they can’t take a risk or change their jobs and HR knows this matter very well. They can’t easily change their jobs because of their attitude. So HR takes such a devil strategy to keep their company alive with the lowest salary and higher quality. Additionally, some employees that have influential characteristics can jump from one work to another because of a toxic IT environment."
    },
    {
      "type": "image",
      "src": "https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/800/1*ILXGjr1146sx284-g0g0vA.png",
      "alt": "https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15726535/which-datatype-should-be-used-for-currency",
      "caption": "https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15726535/which-datatype-should-be-used-for-currency",
      "width": 750,
      "height": 366
    },
    {
      "type": "paragraph",
      "html": "In conclusion, it is a painful situation, the company loses good developers, the developer is always in interview conditions, and everybody is dissatisfied. Everything is temporary, the codes are shared among many developers and they don’t know what is exactly going on in their codes. The codes don’t have documentation and test, whereas the government needs high-tech companies to control inflation."
    },
    {
      "type": "heading",
      "level": 3,
      "text": "If somebody wants to change these situations, they must provide developers with freedom to take prepare action."
    },
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