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Overall, this is the best suited company for individuals seeking good experience in latest technologies.
By Sufian Mehmood Sheikh
a little bit unprofessional and of course wearied administrative issues ...
By I dnt wanna tell
Best place for career growth providing very compitative environment and a good learning environment along with a hard and tough environement
By TM
It is a great company and you can say best company of Pindi , they have good salary structure, Saturday ,Sunday Off, Medical Assurance for Parents and Family, Entertainment Fund of Rs 500 per month , Work in Latest Technologies Like Silverlighte etc, Great Working Environment, Lots of Experienced People, Loan in case of emergency, Location convenient to Rawalpindi Recidenses
By Awais
stupid questions in interview, even the crap who heads the company is a bOT, he understands nothing about IT, but is heading an IT company like crap.F3 Sucks :s
By dreamer
Non professional attitute.. and its like an army cell. with the top managemnet own by just inter pass Buut's... Dont desirve to be called a company. A small office few people and trying to ba company... LOL
By Ahmad Bilal
Excelent career growth. Too many invovative projects where any once can lean alot and can grow accordingly. If you are hardworking and innovative you can grow better than any other company.
By Saeed Akhtar
I found this company as good place for learning, and i am learning alot during my time here in F 3,
By Asim Sajjad
We are here to stay!!!! F3 Rox!
By Sufian
Overall a very good organization. Excellent opportunities for carrier building. Good salary structure and other benefits.
By Saeed Akhtar
Fairly good salaries and other benefits. Performance wise increments twice in a year with handsome amount. Specially increments in last two years are very good.
By Saeed Akhtar
A Software Development company with over 80 employees cannot be designated as a small company. The CEO of the company is the most hardworking and capable person. The hardworking and dedicated employees are the strength of company. Therefore the company grows day by day. They are using latest technologies and therefore this company is a great place for learners. However there are some management issues that make employees frustrated at different times.
By Shahid Ali
This is the best company to start your career to me caz good place to learn new technologies I believe there is no company without issues or having perfect policies and people but its near to perfect with updated policies
By anonymous
They give relatively low salary at start but salary increments are better than many other companies.
By Shahid Ali
A very nice company as far as work environment is concerned, Friendly People and no power failures, no electricity wreckages.... simply COOL :) ...i luved working here...
By Asim Sajjad
Job in F3 is too much demanding that can destroy your social life
By Saeed Akhtar
Excellent carrer growth oppertunity providers! Open oppertunities for personal and career growth are provided here, most exceptional thing here is they always promote new experiments in technology which makes them a step ahead of the market. Most of the people who have worked here came as fresh candidates gained good professional experience here and are now working successfuly in most reputable companies around the globe. 10/10 for F3
By Sufian
Too much of late sittings!!
By Sufian
Good office environment for ladies........
By Sufian
Handsome magnitude and frequency of increments.
By Sufian
A very good company with -> Best Salary packages -> Bi-annual increment (handsome) -> 5 working days of a week -> Medical Insurance -> Monthly Entertainment Fund -> Development in latest technologies -> Good learning/Friendly environment and above all one of the stable IT companies in Pakistan having more than 80 employee and in field for more than 10 years.
By warrior_pk
A wide range of products that provide reliable services around the globe. exceptional support department.
By Sufian
Dare With Care
By Dash
F3 Technologies: A best software comapany of PINDI , ISBD. I had learnt alot , different areas to work and had a challenging environment, experienced people working over here. AWESOME working environment, friendly people, no discrimination , and lots more.... GEO F3. :D
By Anonymous
People are always expected to remain busy. Even a person reading an article other than relevant to his Assigned task, is considered as wasting company time. They find very few relaxed moments.
By Shahid Ali
Good office culture, even a (entry level) junior programmer can easily share anything with the CEO. Hard to find this anywhere else!
By Sufian
Hi, guys work hard, do more and more untill your last breath, dont look back. you have to live here and die here. Concentrate on positives and turn your blind eye towords the negatives and be bothered about it, it will harm your health. want success? than look at me ... it is the road map guys.
By Guess me whom m i? :)
Bad things about F3. 1) No Trust on any one. Even Director Porjects are not trusted. :) 2) F3 gives millions euros on traveling, subscription, salaries, but cann't spend on employee skill improvement. 3) F3 has no such data which is ever helpful for any one still consious about data security. :) 4) NO process for software development. 5) Most of the project get delayed because of the Communication Gap between the customer and development team . Reason :There is no true Business Analyst. 6) Extensive coding is considered as the solution to all problems. These all comments are just for the betterment of F3. No personal issuse is discussed. Hoping for the properous future of F3. Thanks Muhammad Abdullah.
By Muhammad Abdullah
Ping in Favour Good things to know about F3 1) Latest Technology 2) Bi anuual Increment 3) Most of the employees are friendly remember most :) 4) You can only stay in F3 if you are a hard worker, intelligence and smartness does not matter. 5) Good place for beginners for learning. Thanks Muhammad Abdullah
By Muhammad Abdullah
You can learn a lot in F3 but as long as you remain unlearnt.
By Truth
A true high security prison.
By Truth
Data Entry and Code Entry
By Truth
nice comment, "data entry and code entry" :) at the end of the day no of character entered by data entry operators and software developers is compared. :)
By Pro
Good things, You can materialize ur business generating ideas. Every day there is something new to learn and implement Now the salaries are also good with good increments. Overall team members are very cooperative. You feel it as ur second home. Good place for developers and software engineers. F3 is serving Pakistan and i wish and pray it will do more and more business and create wonderful opportunities for employment. My first company so it will always be memorable and i like its cook,admin staff, QA team, data entry team,web team, desktop team, dba team (motey hien tou kiyaa huaa) and bizti from higher management. You can imagine how good days i spent in F3 that i gained 6 inches waist in 2 years. Best of luck for future and be on top
By Khurram Shehzad
Career Growth Path: 1. Sepahi 2. Captain 3. Major . . . But only one Brigadier
By Truth
A PoltryFarm where every Hen (Employee) has to lay a Golden Egg daily.
By Truth
F3 thinks that its assets are source code, hardware and infrastructure. F3 fails to give employees sens of ownership. Despite high salaries employees feel like F3 is not theirs. I think. I think the real assets of F3 are its employee, their selection team and their marketing team and the enviroment and management.
By Khurram Shehzad
I donot understand the psychi of the Anonyous post. If you people have the dare then post it with your names. Other wise people with anonymous post, don't deserver to post the comment. Thanks Muhammad Abdullah
By Muhammad Abdullah
F3 was my first company. I learned a lot there. Company was fair with because i was fair with them. I cannot forgot F3 because i am at good position today due to F3 learning environment and Allah blesssings.
By Imran Zubair
Some environment issue but i think these will be resolved with time being.
By Imran Zubair
Good things: 1) A company with as friendly environment as friendly it can be, with poeple always ready to help and share ideas. 2)After working at F3 you can work in any environment how demanding it can be as far as stress handling is concerned. 3)F3 is a very good company for lerning and self grooming but with the fear of stepping into wrong directions as there is no well defined process for software design and implementation. 4)Salary packages at F3 are one of the best in market. 5)F3 is a nearly ideal company for fresh graduates.(I was also fresh graduate at F3).
By A former developer from F3
Bad things: 1)Career planning needs improvement. 2)The working environment is unprofessional. 3)There are management issues at F3. 4)Salary packages are good but are sometimes unreasonable that will and have spoiled professional career of people. 5)One should have temprament to accept things as they are or should quit there is no third option.
By A former developer from F3
My elder brother, you can criticize openly, as you have left F3, and we are still enprisoned.
By Trust
Overall I am in favor of F3. I think the best part is, they are working in most of the latest technologies. Best for beginners but even better for other as it looks likely be one of the stable companies in Rwp/Isl now.
By Adeel Taseer
The worst thing is/was the timing. Although I am not that punctual, but I won't believe in coming in time and going out in time just like a school kid. in IT work should be completed in time, if the developer is delivering at appropraite time, then there is no need of a guard asking y u came 15 min late and all that stuff. It's been so long that I have left F3 may be that thing have changed....
By Adeel Taseer
I have found F3 not only a best company to start your career but I have found a very friendly environment to work, even here at ETC we F3 guys still get together during lunch and prayer times to share our memories. Management issue are every where so I will advise F3 guys to enjoy your work and career at F3 as things are not such beautiful as they looks from outside...... ;) Nadeem Abbasi LMK Resources.
By Nadeem Abbasi
I worked in F3 for little more than 3 months as an internee. I wasn't concerned with the pay. It did play a vital role in launching my professional carrier. Friendly working enviroment, great workforce, dedicated team leads, competative salary packages are strong points for F3.
By Nasir Rehan
Though little spoiled in my current workplace I would try to be fair in my comments. Software development job shouldn't be strictly timed. Little more trust in employees for completing their allocated working hours would help the company in increasing productivity and efficiency.Lack of Software design and development methodologies. New requirements and features been asked and implemented overnight. No employee training and skill enhancement programs. Congested work place. No visitor room. Even old employees had to stand on the road to meet or greet someone.
By Nasir Rehan
Hi All, I would say the same as Abdullah said. If you don't dare, dont post annonymous comments!!! OK, every company has +ve and -ve aspects so I'll share both type of experiences here. I would also point some comments where people are marketing about F3 as its a plot being sold out and location is very good so buyer must buy this :)! No Offense! Lets face it. Will write two more posts (1st for positive aspects and 2nd for negative aspects. Bye
By RizwanSharp
Good Things about F3: 1) Variety of projects to work on covering many different technologies. 2) Co-workers are friendly. 3) Bi-annaul and good increments. (Though I didnot get a single incrment during my 9 months' stay but I know this from other people). There are some good learning oppurtunies for workers but some of the company's foolishness doesnot let people to be productive. (I'll be explaining this thing in detail in my my post in the negative section). That's All! Rizwan
By Rizwan Ahmed
Bad Things about F3: 1) Senior management doesnot trust you at any matter, You are monitored all the time from Peon -> Security Graud ->...........-> CEO. 2) Company is strictly customer and money centric. Hell with employees' satisfaction. (Worth to mention: Giving good salaries and increment is not what you call EMPLOYEE SATISFACTION) 3) 80% of websites in the world are blocked due to secuirty reasons because F3 is data-center of CIA, ISI, FBI and RAW :). (Senior Management should know that they have employed Engineers who are developing communication systems............... 4) Company's assets are thought to be its clients, data, products, computers and furniture. Management should know that PEOPLE are the REAL ASSET who have brought the company to this point. What F3 can do without human resource it has? a) Can its computers themselves fulfill demands of its clients? b) Can its furniture generate its revenue? c) Can its CEO abuse anyone if employees are not there? No to All!!! 5) Stupid and Fake deadlines!!! In 9 moths' stay I never seen a single project delivered on time. Reason was not that people were not working but the real reason was that company has no process to measure the work and efforts to be put on the project. No project plan, no design but just start typing on the keyboard, complete 7 months work in 1 month and have your a** kicked every minute. 6) Company would generate millions os Euros as its revenue but if it has to be paid RS. 100 extra in form of utility bills, a tention will be created thoughout the company and work environment would be seriously destroyed. All these points and those which are not mentioned should not be interpreted negatively. I hope F3's senior most management should understand that they are developing software but doesnot have 5 mesons, building a house in 30 days. Software development is an engineering and people doing this work are also engineers, they not only work for money but also they need productive environment, creating thinking. Not going into much details. Samajhdaar ke liye ishara hi kafi hai. Best of Luck! Rizwan
By Rizwan Ahmed
LOOOOOOOOOLL At the end of the Day if(Lines written by Data Entry Operator != Lines Written by Developer) { Debug.WriteLine("Developer Sucks, Company is in loss!!!"); }
By Rizwan Ahmed
I'll divide the Good thing in two categories, 1. Management Prespective 2. Peoples Perspective Despite the inherant problem with F3 due to its managerial structure there are good aspect as well. Management tries to familiar with the employees Management listen to peoples and try to help them The vision for growth of employess and organizational goals are although forced by different factors but atleast they have goal and vision (now). As being a product base companey Peoples alway's have work with continuous growing learning curve. Salaries are accroding to market Increment rate is good A very good place for new comers to learn the things. (we can call it F3 School Systems) More opportunity to jouinor level developer to implement his/her own wishes during the development F3 or FFF unique name like an aeroplane :D Admin officer is alway's an X-army JCO, so having good time pass during Cigrate's Owned office building (HOME) so you can meet the peoples whenever you want to :) Conclusion: Thankyou FFF to give us start to meet the market challenges
By Tanzeel Ur Rahman
Now its time to say some harsh things (Sorry) Lack of processes: not in development nor in management, it make is one-man-show, wins the heart of one person and you are in ireland :D People's base culture not process based. So they have no measureing capabilities Faviroutisam Don't promote positive critisism Realilze every thing too late to bring for employees Concept of employees as a labor not as assests They give the things like they don't want to give but giving Unfotunately :D Poeples in sleepers are not looking like professionals so employees can never realize themselves as Professionals but a bare foot labor in the mud Environment of office in rooms Very near to father of CEO's home A night bad dream to CEO makes the things worse for employees (as they are labor) Just have vision to increase the salries with the logic that more salry more work An employee of F3 comes to be a perfessional but be a person on whome other's feel mercy Vision to increase number of employees without any growth for employee Very few things to learn from seniors Not a carrer oriented companey Conclusion: Stay, Learn and Flew away ;)
By Tanzeel Ur Rahman
Some Point for betterment of F3. 1) Company missing a HR dept, serving for betterment of employees not another enforcement agency. 2) Decisions and policy making should not done by single person. 3) Company is now a mature software company so it seriously needs a professional software development culture by removing extra monitoring checks. 4) Need software development process, companies going on CMMi 1-5 but F3 stands where ????? 5) Ever company's management thought to give non monetary rewards to employees ? These are all comments for the betterment of F3. No personal issues . Thanks Nadeem Abbasi
By Nadeem Abbasi
Positives: 1) Dr. Javad is serving humanity, by granting very less time for smoking... 2) You only need to develop few versions of a Product, then it is discarded. So, no need to make Ultra Stable, Ultra Maintainable Solutions. Just do it, the short way... 3) No Politics or Leg Pulling May be a few more???
By Muneeb
Negatives: 1) Employees are not considered as Resources, may be that's why there isn't any HR? 2) Not a single hour is allocated for Software Design, just put your hands on the keyboard. 3) Deadlines are so narrow, that there isn't any breathing space. 4) Productivity is calculated by Man Hours (in fact Man Seconds) spent on the Project. I think that's enough.
By Muneeb
Oh, I missed one 5) Even Googling is considered as a wastage of time, don't even think about others.
By Muneeb
As Muneeb said: 2) Not a single hour is allocated for Software Design, just put your hands on the keyboard. 3) Deadlines are so narrow, that there isn't any breathing space. 4) Productivity is calculated by Man Hours (in fact Man Seconds) spent on the Project. And I already mentioned under Products/Services Category: LOOOOOOOOOLL At the end of the Day if(Lines written by Data Entry Operator != Lines Written by Developer) { Debug.WriteLine("Developer Sucks, Company is in loss!!!"); }
By Rizwan Ahmed
Bad Thing: This site is now blocked in F3 premesis. :)
By Muhammad Abdullah
OMG, Abdulllah You are so true..... I just asked a guy from F3 to open this website... and its blocked there can;t open.... Hence Proved.... F3 will remain the same...... Best of Luck Guys..... Bye
By Rizwan Ahmed
One More Bad Thing: They can't take Criticism as positive so they have banned this website so their employee be busy in typing on keyboard....... Seem like Big Loooser....
By Rizwan Ahmed
I worked in F3 for almost 3 years in development and then 1.5 years as a Business Analyst in Dublin headquarter. I started my professional development career with F3 and learnd a lot from the company. Of course ther are issues especially the company is new and still trying to establish itself by generating revenue. As everybody (including ex-employees) aware that a lot of improvements have been made into the policies of the company. Dr Javad wants to do a lot of things but looking for appropriate management team to share the responsibilities with. He got very selective people in his management team like Tahir Anwar, Saeed sb.. Regarding blocking internet content, its true not to block everything but its worth to block some of the sites and programs especially messengers in a profesional environment. I am working with an Internatinal level company where you have Gym, Snooker, Entertainment Rooms, Exhibitions, Restaurants and shops inside the buildings, but still all emailing sites, socila networking sites and all chating messengers are blocked. Good thing is that there is a small net cafe point where you can go and check your emails etc.but you are not allowed to spend more than 15 minutes on a PC. So the site blocking policy is everywhere except in Dublin office:) F3 environment is really friendly, and i made a lot of good friends and have good memories attached with F3. I luckly got a chance to have personal coaching from Dr Javad and i am really thankful to him for all this. Best, Kashif Riaz
By Kashif
Every company is not perfect as everywhere there are issues. Dr Javad wants to do a lot of things but looking for appropriate management team to share the responsibilities with. He got very selective people in his management team like Tahir Anwar, Saeed sb. But f3 needs management who is dare to mention any point or thing which is not in favour of any project and particulalry to F3. Company's system is currently revolving around one person and its a burden on that person as well. So better a well defined systematic structure in place so the compoany could fly very smoothly. Company should give self respect and trust to its employees. Their should be democracy in the company:) Employer of the year should be given vouchers for certification exams. Company Alhamdullilah making progresss and better if the system makes its place by now. A lot of misunderstandings, missing deadlines etc happens due to lack of proper communications and both parties are responsible for that. These are my personal views and could be wrong but in any case i would wish good luck to this company. Best, K.
By Kashif Riaz
Few of my university friends are working at F3 and they always talk about the Company as a model for the IT world. No late sittings, come on time and leave on time as well, some good increments and bonuses, nice environment etc. I am a bit confused because I want to switch my job and have applied already!! sincere suggestion??
By Syed Akhtar
Well dear, if your friends are saying good about the company and wanted you to join then go ahead as your friends should be your most trust worthy and sincere source. Best, K.
By Kashif Riaz
I hear they even give health insurance for parents, if this is the case then I feel they do really care about people
By Anonymous
Shame that the world does not know how big is their product base, it is up to them to make publicity, if managmneet does not want then I guess no one can do it for them, looking from inside I can say they should call F3 as one of the biggest software product company in Pakistan. f they publicise it will look very good for everyone....
By Tahir

Questions:
What does F3 really do? I am kinda confused by visiting their site as they seem to have multiple brands/companies
By Arshad
just happened to read on their site that they're not a outsourcing firm... my Qs is what kinda projects F3 works on and is there any project in Pakistan they've worked on?
By Sana Salahuddin

Answers:
F3 had worked on many different kind of areas, Almost all of there clients are from abroad majorly Ireland and Belgium. Major areas are CRM, and Medical Health Care.
By Not Needed