Feriani A. - "flash 8/CS3, ActionScript 2/3, php/MySql, xml, English, French, Arabic - Freelance Programmer / Developer, Tunisia"

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Mejid is an extremely pleasant young man to work with and very confident in his ability to "get the job done".  Unfortunately I believe in the case of our website he completely underestimated the development skills required, and as a result he significantly underbudgeted the time it would take him to complete the project.

To his credit, once we had exceeded our agreed upon budget he continued to work to try and finish the project, however eventually days turned into weeks and at times days would pass between seeing any kind of change to the site. And it became apparent that we had become a lower priority.  Still Mejid promised he would stay with the project until it was finished...

Not long after he ended the project (for my benefit so I wouldn't accidentally be billed by odesk), asked for 5 star feedback and then quit when I didn't provide it, leaving me 3 weeks behind schedule with a site that was unusable and no budget left to finish it.   After some discussion, Mejid and I compromised and he offered to refund some hours as soon as he started a new job so that I could hire another provider... however he has since been hired and the refund process has not started despite my repeated requests.  

To be fair, I would definitely recommend Mejid to someone who has a straight-forward uncomplicated piece of work that needs to be done.  His language skills are excellent and he is genuinely a nice person who works hard.  But from my perspective I would have appreciated if he recognized a little earlier that this project was beyond him, completed whatever portion he was comfortable with and perhaps helped me find a provider to fill in the gaps OR left me with time and budget to get the remainder done elsewhere... and that to me would have been 5-star worthy.