Translated from 日本語 • View original I am a 24-year-old graduate who is currently doing an internship. It's been three months since I started my internship, so I'm going to look back and introduce what it was like at Colorkrew.
Why Colorkrew
To be honest, it was because the people seemed good. Work takes up most of your time every day. I think that if the people involved there are good people, you can spend a lot of your life happily. When I actually worked at Colorkrew, - They always care about me at work - They respond cheerfully and politely when I ask for help - They have reasonable expectations - They treat me casually regardless of department or age
I think it is a very comfortable environment to work in. There are many others, but I would like to introduce them later.
How I decided to get a job at Colorkrew
In my case, I started job hunting in December of my third year of university. At that time, I was studying abroad, so I was looking for a job online. Regarding job hunting at our company, we had the first interview with our company in mid-December, the second interview in mid-January, and the final interview at the end of January, and we made a job offer.
During my job hunting, I was thinking about where to find a job based on three main criteria. - A company with good people - A free company - A company that can develop in-house and contract development
As mentioned above, a company with good people is a company. I think the general idea is that you won't know until you actually work. However, there are things that can be understood even during the interview. In my case, I was able to judge that it was the best company for me comprehensively, such as the perspective of communication (high-pressure or equal), the high resolution of expectations for myself, and my intuition.
I also considered that it is a free company. My own definition of "freedom" is "the ability to communicate openly regardless of position while taking considerable responsibility in each position" and "everyone is facing the same direction with a wide range of backgrounds, experiences, and ideas." I believe that working in a "free" organization that meets these requirements is a place where mental safety is guaranteed and where you can best demonstrate your strength.
Finally, it is a company that can develop in-house and contract development. As an engineer, you can also fulfill your desire to create products yourself. At the same time, by collaborating with other companies through contract development, you can acquire a way of thinking that is common to society in general.
Colorkrew met these three criteria. Also, through my actual internship, I think my sensibilities have not been wrong so far.
About Work Styles
It's been three months since I started my internship. In the first month, it was the summer vacation of the university, so I went to work at the Tokyo headquarters. After that, I returned to university and continued to work remotely while taking classes.
In the first month I came to work, I was taken care of by various people. Basically, as a contract development team, we were working on one project. It was all difficult, but I learned a lot because I was able to proceed with a rewarding project.
On the other hand, I think the first month was the month when I ate out the most in my life. We talked about a lot of things. It's fun to be able to catch a conversation with excellent people.
Since then, we have continued to investigate and develop the above projects and other contracted tasks remotely. Although it is remote, it is a grateful work environment that immediately picks up the help you ask.
About the Business
The work I experienced in the three months is as follows.
Streamlining resale operations was the main project. Resale is the optimization of cloud services (outsourcing business) as an intermediary between cloud vendors and customers (resellers). In doing so, you need to calculate the resources used by each customer and bill the vendor. We have improved the efficiency of that work. To be honest, it was very difficult. I started the work without understanding the infrastructure, including the cloud, but I proceeded with the project by researching and studying. I think it was worth it, and I was able to gain knowledge and familiarity with coding, architecture, Azure and MS products, and AWS specifications. At the same time, I was able to learn how to proceed with projects with the people around me.
Efficiency of monitoring operations One of the entrusted tasks is monitoring work. There you need to deal with the alerts that come every day, or even every minute. However, a single alert can involve a lot of people, time, and money, and it must be handled quickly and appropriately. Therefore, we are working to make alerts easier to read and simplify the alert response itself.
Responding to customer requests for outsourced work The work requested by seniors at the spot is included in "Responding to customer requests for outsourcing work". We conduct research and develop based on customer requests. Although I am at work, I can do work that leads to new discoveries, so I enjoy it quite a bit.
Meeting with customers I was very nervous. I mainly took the minutes, but I didn't know what they were talking about. It's just a matter of studying every day.
What's Ahead
Until you graduate from university, you will be balancing your studies and internships. It's a busy day, but it's kind of fulfilling. For the time being, I will try my best to survive every day.
For job seekers
Thank you for your hard work. I think it's a day when I think about which company to go to and how to do it based on my own standards. My standards were "goodness of people" and "freedom". I don't think I was wrong in my judgment. I hope you will believe in your own standards and do your best to prove that you were not wrong.