Thursday, June 3, 2010

My first work week

I came to Istanbul this Sunday in order to start with my internship on Monday,31 Maj. My friends from IAESTE (The International Association for the Exchange of Students for Technical Experience) arranged me a place at dormitory and they took me to Zeitin at the first day.
We came at the company at 11 a.m and I notice that almost nobody was here. There were just two girls and they explained me that the working hours at Zeitin are flexible, meaning that the employees can come at work whenever they want to. I notice that most of the employees came around 1 or 2 p.m but they stay at work till 8 or 9 o'clock. This is one of the things that I like about the company, because I known that nobody wants to get up early for going to work, even me :).
Later that same day one of the employees, Samet, came to me and explained me several things and principles that I should know about the company. In short lines he explained me almost everything about the company and what am I going to do here this summer. He also gave me several tasks(tickets) that I should complete during this week. For each task I must search help from one of the employees and Samet suggests that I should look help from different employees, in order to meet them better. During this previous days Remzi. Guray and Idil helped me a lot.
Zeitin is a company that is placed in Istanbul, near Taksim square, the company is producing video streaming server - Vidi, that allows web developers to add live streaming video capabilities easy to web sites or web applications. Zeiting has four main products: Vidicall, Vidiedu, Vidicast and Vidiluck.
Now I would make a summary of the work that I was doing in those previous days and from tomorrow I will write more about each day as intern in Zeitin.
During this week employees opened me e-mail account and they add me to the e-mail list.Now I also have accounts at company`s tracking system and CRM, and while opening the accounts, they gave me training for each of the software.
Next days the boss, Giray, gave me tasks to control Google AdWords, and under his supervision I add several key words and next days I should work on designing banners for the company. Idil gave me another task, to prepare English presentations,one for the company and four others for each products.
From this Monday there going to be more interns at this company, around 15 and thats why Zeitin rent the office space that are on the flat below. Because of this today afternoon everybody was involved in preparing the offices, so we were moving furniture, computers etc.

Now it is time to go home, so I will write more in detail from tomorrow.

See ya

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