Interview Archives

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Haastattelussa Elinarin Senior Software Developer Joonas Helava

Haastattelussa Elinarin Senior Software Developer Joonas Helava Haastattelin yhtä Elinarin ohjelmistoprojektien avainhenkilöistä Joonas Helavaa ja keskustelimme hänen työstään sekä kokemuksestaan IT-alalla. Joonas on työskennellyt Elinarilla vuodesta 2019 lähtien ja on ollut talossa 3,5 vuotta. Hän aloitti Junior Software Developerin roolissa ja on sittemmin edennyt Senior-tasolle. Ensimmäiset ohjelmointikokemukset jo yläasteikäisenä Kysyin Joonakselta miten hän päätyi IT-alalle. […]

Elinar is expanding knowledge to Red Hat technologies

Elinar has over 20-year long co-operation with IBM. When IBM made acquisition of Red Hat it was obvious support to Elinar’s interest in working with Red Hat also. The decision of being a Red Hat partner was done in 2020. Elinarian’s are very excited about this co-operation and all the opportunities that partnering with Red […]

Elinarin Account Manager Tommi Turunen mäntymaisemassa

Account Manager, the link between customer and company

Staff interview with Tommi Turunen, Account Manager at Elinar Tommi’s happy voice has become familiar to the other employees even though the man himself has worked at Elinar under six months, and not even at the Elinar office. He works remotely from his home office, over two hundred kilometers away from Elinar’s headquarters – so […]

Jonathan Pere, the trainee of Elinar, standing in the street

Coding while the corona pandemic at the Elinar’s internship

Interview with Jonathan Pere, the trainee of Elinar Jonathan Pere came to accomplish his training at Elinar in a very unusual world situation. The corona pandemic had driven most people to work remotely, closed schools, and forced Jonathan to fly to Finland ahead of time from the United States, where he was in a student […]

Elinar's Junior Software Developer Saana Lukka sitting on her porch

The Software Developer gets powered with music and nature

Staff Interview with Saana Lukka, the Junior Software Developer at Elinar Saana Lukka from Pori came across Elinar for the first time during her studies at Satakunta University of Applied Sciences (SAMK). She was googling AI-companies nearby for her school task. When there came a time to find a company for her software development internship, […]

Mikko Hörkkö CEO of Elinar sitting on a chair

CEO Mikko Hörkkö: ”Transition to remote work went very well at Elinar.”

Special interview with CEO of Elinar, in closed Finland. The coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic has impacted everyday life around the world. In the empty office of Elinar, no one sits around the coffee table where people used to have their breakfast together. All have moved to work remotely from their home offices. Mikko Hörkkö has been […]

Elinar's Customer Service Officer Miia Sysilahti

“Well-being at work consists of small things in the middle of everyday life – like taking other people into account.”

Staff interview with Miia Sysilahti, the Customer Service Officer of Elinar It was the result of many coincidences when Miia Sysilahti arrived in Elinar over 13 years ago. A young woman studied Information Technology at Satakunta University of Applied Sciences (SAMK) and wondered where to apply for her internship. The traineeships for the company she was interested in had already been filled. Then Miia’s mother remembered Elinar, a local […]

Elinar's Office Secretary Anne Simula sitting on a couch

Anne is the heart of the office

Staff interview with Anne Simula, the Office Secretary of Elinar When new employees start to work for Elinar, Anne Simula is one of the first persons they meet. She has taken care of the administration of Elinar over eight years now and she knows how important the first impression is. “I still remember how good it felt to […]

Petri Sysilahti, the Solution Architect of Elinar, standing in a glassy building

“People in Elinar are committed to work and the community”

Staff interview with Petri Sysilahti, the Solution Architect of Elinar Petri Sysilahti has the longest working history in Elinar, compared to current employees. He arrives calmly for an interview with a morning coffee, even if there are unfinished projects waiting for him and messages are coming to his cellphone all the time. After entering Elinar […]

Marketing Manager of Elinar, Leena Tähti standing in BEPOP

The journey of Software Designer becoming Marketing Manager

Staff Interview with Leena Tähti, the Marketing Manager of Elinar In September 2019, Leena Tähti returned to work from her maternity leave. Meanwhile, her career at Elinar turned 10 years. Leena has accomplished a lot at Elinar, even if her journey to becoming the Marketing Manager wasn’t the most typical one. But maybe that exactly […]