Quant Coding

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

CEO @ Ghosal Real Estate Holdings LLC. We develop high end vacation rentals and use technology to give us an edge!

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire Quant Coding, and what were your goals?

We were looking to get competitive market information about overnight rental rates and occupancy. Once this information was collected from the internet, we would analyze this data to provide us with optimal rental rates for specific days of the year.

SOLUTION

How did you select Quant Coding and what were the deciding factors?

They seemed to be aggressive in the bidding process and seemed to know exactly what they were doing. Communication was also easy since they speak english fluently.

Describe the scope of work in detail, including the project steps, key deliverables, and technologies used.

We had multiple rental companies to be scraped. This was done in three phases. We provided them the exact format in which the information had to be collected. Once this was done, they developed a script that would run every night and deliver the results to our mailbox.

How many people from the vendor's team worked with you, and what were their positions?

One

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

Can you share any measurable outcomes of the project or general feedback about the deliverables?

Project was delivered on time and within budget

Describe their project management style, including communication tools and timelines.

Mainly communication via messaging on Upwork.

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

Their knowledge about the technology and their communication skills were impressive.

Are there any areas for improvement or something they could have done differently?

I have not tested them in wider area of technology. So it is hard for me to say how they will do in other areas. But they did well in the specific areas that I used them for.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

The founder of a start-up company looking at data analytics around various industries within the UK

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire Quant Coding, and what were your goals?

Develop a data scraper to work on a daily basis from different websites. Perform calculations on the data so it can be displayed to the end-user in an easy to understand way

SOLUTION

How did you select this vendor and what were the deciding factors?

Initially, quant coding was able to display some relevant examples to the type of work we needed but weren't able to demonstrate a complete match for what we needed.

Describe the scope of work in detail, including the project steps, key deliverables, and technologies used.

Various discussions took place in which a detailed requirements document was walked through and handed over. target prototype Images was also shared. It was expected that the solution will be developed in python, MySQL and JavaScript. They agreed to all of the requirements (with some clarification) and timelines were agreed however none of the timelines were made.

How many people from the vendor's team worked with you, and what were their positions?

We only ever heard face off to one person called Tomislav Naydovski. This was very disappointing because we were promised a project manager as well as access to other parts of the team as and when required however after the project was started it was established that it is a very small company who tend to contract out most of the work and just give the impression of a big presence.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

Can you share any measurable outcomes of the project or general feedback about the deliverables?

None of the agreed deliverables was actually ever delivered and throughout various stages of the project, our contact (Tomislav Naydovski) at the company did not respond to emails or phone calls. In summary, there are no deliverables.

Describe their project management style, including communication tools and timeliness.

The project management style is very ad hoc and organised. For example, we were initially promised a weekly call to track progress however this agreement was not adhered to and we had to chase them all the time to set up a status meeting, which was always cut short.

What did you find most impressive or unique about this company?

Unfortunately, there is nothing impressive or even average about this company it has been a very disappointing experience. On top of the worst, time wasted with this company, we have also lost a significant amount of money (with nothing to show for the amount they demanded on a weekly basis)

Are there any areas for improvement or something they could have done differently?

This is a very long list of improvements but it could all be summarised by the company being honest transparent and sticking to what they say they will do.

BACKGROUND

Please describe your company and your position there.

CEO and co-founder

OPPORTUNITY / CHALLENGE

For what projects/services did your company hire Quant Coding?

Data engineering and Machine Learning algorighthms.

What were your goals for this project?

Collect data, reformat, structure data, build models, train, test and productionize.

SOLUTION

How did you select Quant Coding?

Upwork

Describe the project in detail.

Collect data, reformat, structure data, build models, train, test and productionize.

What was the team composition?

1-2 data engineers and 1 data scientist.

RESULTS & FEEDBACK

Can you share any outcomes from the project that demonstrate progress or success?

Very competent, very responsive, independent, knowledgeable, creative and professional.

How effective was the workflow between your team and theirs?

Good to very good.

What did you find most impressive about this company?

They use a creative method to sort out data framework and modeling.

Are there any areas for improvement?

I wish they provided a more sustained communication thread with my team.