[Chicago] From PMA - Position: PYTHON Software Development

[Rob Kapteyn]

From the job description and location, I'm pretty sure this headhunter is recruiting for Textura:

http://www.texturacorp.com/.
Textura Headquarters
1405 Lake Cook Road
Deerfield, IL 60015

Textura started using python with Webware when Webware was cool -- i.e., a long time ago.

Now there is nothing wrong with Webware ...
lots of people still use it and we all love our Ian Bicking for creating it.
But -- its no longer cool, so fewer and fewer people use it, it isn't assimilating all of the latest and
greatest technology (AJAXy stuff in particular).
it is also getting harder to find people to work with it -- newer pythonistas might not have heard of it.

I have heard the following gossip -- I'm not sure of all of the details:

Textura got bought by AON a couple of years ago, when hard times hit.
AON moved their office from Lincolnshire to Deerfield.
In their great corporate wisdom, AON wanted to change everything from Python to J2EE.
(hence Java/J2EE polluting the job description)

With the move and the tech change, they lost most, if not all, of their Python people.
From what I understand -- management didn't really appreciate them either.
Its a curse of Python -- we make things look so easy -- managers don't realize how great we really are. 

So, now they need Python people again.
Their J2EE's must have failed, or come up with some ridiculous time estimate -- as we would have expected ;-)

I did send my resume to these guys like a year ago -- never even got a reply.
But then again, I was using the funky AON web interface (obviously J2EE) -- it might have lost it :)
I guess the recruiter is less likely to lose it.

-Rob
 

On Aug 6, 2010, at 4:32 PM, Jon Dugan wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 12:09 PM, sheila miguez <shekay at pobox.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 12:02 PM, David Rock <david at graniteweb.com> wrote:
>>> * Daniel Griffin <dgriff1 at gmail.com> [2010-08-06 10:22]:
>>>> Typically it is fine, but usually more of a "hey my company is hiring, its
>>>> pretty cool working here" kind of post instead a wall of inconsistent
>>>> requirements for a job in huge red text.
>>> 
>>> I had no idea the text was red.  In mutt, I was spared the agony, it
>>> seems. :-)
>> 
>> and you bottom post. you're so cool. :)
> 
> +1 for plain text
> +1 for bottom posting
> +1 for Friday
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