HintTech nominated for 'Best Employer' award

11 April 2007 - HintTech, specialist in the field of software development, has been nominated for the ‘Best Company To Work For’ award. This award is granted by the ‘Great Place to Work’ Institute. Previous winners of awards for good employership have gone to companies such as Microsoft, Randstad and Rabobank.

Since its foundation in 1997, the working experience has played a very important role at HintTech. Many employees have come from large ICT service providers and have consciously chosen a company where more independence, seniority and responsibility are demanded. The majority of ICT staff attach great importance to challenge in their work and diversity in their projects.

Marco Aarts is a developer at HintTech who previously worked for Ordina. He has intentionally chosen a company that offers him a challenge. “The more complicated the project, the better. Nowadays the standard projects are all contracted out to the low-waged countries, and the projects that are left at the big IT service providers are often not interesting. A specialist player like HintTech knows how to challenge its staff with complicated projects”, he says.

It is often a challenge for companies to keep their employees interested during projects. From research into the factors which ICT staff regard as really important in a job, it appears that the majority of ICT staff (73 percent) see their ‘work’ as the most important. But colleagues are also important (10.7 percent), followed closely by salary (9.3 percent). HintTech knows how to provide a combination of these three factors.

HintTech is a fast-growing company which has its headquarters in Delft. Two years ago it employed just 31 people; today the company has 75 employees in the Netherlands alone. An office has now also been opened in San Francisco and an expansion to China is on the horizon. So it is not for nothing that the company features in the Deloitte Fast 50: a league table of the Netherlands’ fastest growing technology companies.

The choice of nominees for ‘Great Place to Work’ was made on the basis of a survey of all employees, a cultural audit, and details such as salaries, part-time opportunities and variety of work. The winner out of the 25 nominees will be announced on 3 May.

About HintTech

HintTech is a specialist in the area of software development (.Net™, Java™ platform, Tridion), content management, project management and information security. The company was founded in 1997 and employs innovative and proven technologies and methodologies to develop high quality customised solutions for its clients. HintTech is both a consulting and an executive partner for Tridion, Microsoft, Sun J2EE™ and IBM WebSphere, and counts Shell, Nuon, Fortis and KLM among its clients.