A few days ago, Gilles Granger, the manager of Vinini and a good friend asked me whether I was willing to help him find two excellent developers for his company. I asked him for give more information on the exact profile he was looking for and he sent me the following:
Vinivi est l’un des sites leader Européen sur le voyage et l’une des rares Start-Up 100% à Maurice.
Nous travaillons 100% de notre temps sur le site et sommes en partenariat, par exemple, avec de petites sociétés comme Google et Galiléo.
Une équipe soudée, moyenne d’âge équipe de dev : 26 ans, beaucoup de projets et pas assez de temps pour tout faire.
Vinivi est un site participatif (web 2), il faut donc être geek, savoir ce qu’est Internet et une API.
Les jobs, plein temps, sont situés dans nos locaux à Trou Aux Biches, dans le Nord.
Our playground:
- ASP.NET (C#)
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2005
- Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (Database Design & Optimization)
- AJAX, Google Map API, CSS, XHTML, JavaScript
- Search Engine Optimization
- SSIS (SQL Server Integration Services)
Geek exp̩riment̩ : Developer Р.NET, C#, ASP.NET, SQL Server
Nice to have:
- Experience in graphic package tools: Photoshop CS or other
- Experience one or more of the following API: Facebook, Google Maps, YouTube, Amazon
- Experience in SSIS
Academic and Work Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field
- 2-3 years of related professional experience.
Jeune geek : Junior Developer .Net, C#, ASP .Net, SQL Server
Academic and Work Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field
Le site web : www.vinivi.com
Good luck to all those applying! Pity you’ll have to work with Microsoft technologies :-)
hmmm… interesting…. 5mins from my home :P
Bah! .Net! why? but why? :S
Thanks Avinash.
Vinivi is not open source, shame on us… In the meantime, we use API from Google (open source), Yahoo/IBM search techno (open source), weather (open source) and other fancy stuff, all of them being open source…
My pleasure Gilles :-)
Sans rentrer dans les détails.
J’aurais 2 questions pour Gilles.
1) Pourquoi des technologies propriétaires pour une petite structure comme Vinici, sauf piratage cela doit représenter un budget conséquent ?
2) Quelle peut être le modèle économique de votre société ? La publicité, le référencement des hôtels ?
@Yashvin : just one e-mail away then
@Kailash : because when we started, Microsoft was (and still is) a good idea. Open source is a also good thing. After all, it’s only what you do with the technology
@chege
1/ Microsoft a un programme Partenaire qui fait que nous avons accès à la technologie pour un prix intéressant. Là ou je te rejoins c’est pour l’hébergement. Notre architecture et notre trafic ‘consomme’ plus de 5 serveurs et la facture d’hebergement est importante
2/ Le modèle économique est très classique : nous générons des leads vers 80% des grand Tours Opérateurs européens. Pour faire simple, les avis et le contenu génère du trafic et de l’intérêt que nous revendons à ceux qui peuvent fournir la prestation.
Whose technology is used is not that important. What is important, from a business point of view, is what technology will yield the maxium benefits and the minimum costs. If Microsoft is offering a good package, then why not? This is even more interesting if it allows a company to recruit developers easily. There is a very high chance that most developers are familiar with Microsoft technologies. This means huge time saving. Down the road, the same company can consider other alternatives. At least this is what I would have done if I was a businessman. As a businessman, my goal would be simple: maximise profits. I would be in the business not to promote open source software, but to make money. Call me greedy if you want, but this is what business is about (to me :-)
True. Doing business is about maximising profits by minimising costs. I’m sure Gilles did consider a lot of alternatives and chose Microsoft technologies because of sound reasons. In the same way other companies have chosen OSS to power their infrastructure. And as Gilles mentioned, it’s not black and white. Vinivi does use a lot of OSS running on top of Doze.
You’re right, it’s not black and white. My way of thinking is: Use the best tool to do the job. By best, I mean the one which will yield the maximum yields the maximum benefits and cost the least, including one’s time, which a lot of people tend to ignore when figuring costs.
@patrick : you are right : when we started this adventure some three years ago, our main goal ws to get going fast. Jean-Francois, our lead developer and architect had experience on .Net. We also were aware of the efforts Microsoft made to train students on their products.
wait a sec. ” Nous travaillons 100% de notre temps sur le site et sommes en partenariat, par exemple, avec de petites sociétés comme Google et Galiléo.”
Google is a small company?
That’s called humour :-)
“Les jobs, plein temps, ”
No Flex time then. Why do I need to work on site when the technology to collaborate online exists? I do understand the need to not ‘break’ the existing trend but still.
BTW, Google is a small company. Most of its products are not created by all its ‘workers.’ The startups should be credited always. As a member of the now Google-consumed Writely from its start, I’m still grateful to Writely every time I use Google Docs. In terms of successful products, the acquired startups are BIG. They lead the way. Google is just the area within the system boundary. lol
Dear Gilles
Very interesting indeed, Do you have partnership with Amadeus GDS as well?
We do talk to everyone… of course… fell free to send me an e-mail if you have ideas around that…
Gilles,
I see you deal with .NET and C# mainly. Have you ever tried Spring .NET in case you have complex business logic and want loosely coupled codes via dependency injection? I’m curious to know how popular is Spring. NET in the .NET community as I’ve played around with it when it was still in the beta version (beginning 2007).
Cheers
Ash
@Ash
I have heard of Spring.Net it was still in beta too. But i haven’t been using it. We went on using Enterprise Library from Microsoft which was at that time much more stable because it was build from an enterprise class library created by Avanade called ACA.NET.
I’ll try to spare some time and take a look on how much Spring.NET has evolve during these 2 years.
References:
http://www.avanade.com/whatwedo/deliverydetail.aspx?deliveryid=2