The day started at the Rise office, where Simon and I (Sam) worked together on the website for the energy provider startup and started with the improvements we got from our employer. It was stuff like adjusting images, text sizes and layout bugs, so nothing major. I also had some minor tasks like creating business …
Today was probably the busiest of all the days we have already had here. We had to leave the house early so we would be on time. We met Leonie and Adrian in front of the United Nations building. First, we met a friend of Leonie who works at the United Nations as a judge. …
Even though it was Sunday, we didn’t sleep in and got up at 9am to see the Central Park. Getting there took us some time because we had to change trains multiple times. We met Leonie at the Apple Store. In the park we just walked around, enjoyed the nature and how peaceful it was …
This weekend was for us to enjoy, since no one had to work. We went to New Jersey to go shopping at The Mills at Jersey Gardens but first, we made a stop at the tear drop memorial. We spent a very long time at the mall. At 6pm we decided to head back home. …
Today was a productive Day. Sam, Simon, Miriam and I started early and we arived at the office around 9:00 am. I solved my problem with the Hubspot API and released a first prototype of my sales tool for ChatDesk. In the afternoon Andrew invited me to a salesmeeting about identifying Customer Success milestones. After …
Duarte and I are working for Greater Zurich Area during our stay in New York. Our job is to help them get all the data from the current website to the new website. In this process we are for example copying all their Blogs to the new site, testing all the links in the articles, …
Since today – apart from grocery-shopping and work – not much has happened, I will write a little about the work, Sam and I are currently doing. Here in New York we got the amazing opportunity to create a whole Corporate Identity for a very young energy-startup. This includes everything from logo-, businesscard- and template-design, …
Today we were invited to a larger Swiss bank here in New York. We had a hosted tour through very interesting parts of the bank, such as the trading floor and their internal support. The tour began at 12:00 pm, where we were welcomed into one of their meeting rooms. They had one of the …
Today, Severin and I started our new job at ChatDesk. We met at ten and started with a briefing about the company and the projects. One of my new coworkers explained to me what I will be doing while I’m here. ChatDesk has a tool that sorts customer messages into different categories. It’s already fairly …
This was our first weekend after our first work week! We were all still experiencing a little jetlag and decided to take it easy. We had planned on going to New Jersey, to go shopping, but Severin and Miriam had to go to Adrian’s office and keep working for their project at “Tenlegs”. They were …