Insightful Profile-building Opportunities: Internship at Bitkub
By Manyasiri (Pear) Chotbuwong
Internships are an amazing way to spend a summer or holiday break. Aside from the other numerous benefits of internships, ranging from the opportunity to gain valuable work experience, explore a career path, develop new skills, network with professionals, and gain confidence, internships are also an excellent way for a high school student to show to colleges his or her interest and future aspirations. Colleges are fond of students who seek a broad spectrum of opportunities and are willing to learn from others outside of their comfortable backgrounds. In this article, we will be introducing an insightful internship opportunity at one of Thailand’s fastest growing startups.
Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin?!
If you are a cryptocurrency and blockchain enthusiast, Bitkub is for you! Bitkub.com is a trading platform for cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum. Bitkub is a fintech company, a disruptor of the incumbent financial system through the use of technology to make financial services more efficient.
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Mr. Topp Jirayu, founder and CEO of Bitkub
Enjoy Employee Benefits
Bitkub employees experience a very liberal and fast-forward way of working. Bitkub employees enjoy flexible work hours, unlimited vacation, free breakfast and lunch, a nap space at work, and even a free haircut. Work is measured by performance rather than time. Employees and interns alike are given mentors who help guide them in difficult situations and help improve their individual skills.
The Startup’s Unique WorkFlow
The workflow at Bitkub is distinctly unique, with employees separated into ‘teams’ rather than departments to boost the flow of information within the company. Team members sit at the same long coworking table–not in separate individual desks–without any walls in between, so there is no blockade to the flow of ideas. Moreover, there is no hierarchy in the company based on positions. Interns are treated and given the same work as real employees, and employees can call meetings with the CEO anytime to chat. The company tries to create an equal and comfortable work environment where employees are able to connect with one another.
Typical Work Day at Bitkub
9:00 Slack
Daily Task
Scrum – Morning Market Report
Monthly Target
12:00 Lunch
14:00 Show & Tell – Every team update one other through google hangouts
17:00 Games
18:00 Retrospective – Reflection on goal achievement from Monday
Diving Deeper: Morning Routines that Matter
Most interns commute to the office using the BTS, starting their day off with enriching or funny podcasts. After arriving at work, they will open their computers to check Slack, an online medium where everyone shares their difficulties and work-in-progress with each other. While waiting for the others to arrive, interns write down their Daily Tasks on a digital to-do board to let their mentors know what their work plans are for the day. When everyone is settled in, each team does a Scrum, a quick daily meeting to discuss a morning market report and help identify solutions to problems each person faced. After the Scrum, everyone heads over to set the team’s Monthly Target.
Strategy to Strengthen Communications
At noon, interns and employees alike get delivered free lunches which they ordered from an application. Each person is given a certain amount of coins to order the food they would like to eat. After lunch, usually on Fridays, there is a Show & Tell where each team creates a presentation to update other teams on what they are doing through google hangouts. Then at 5 pm, everyone plays games to collect points for their respective color teams, from sports to board games. Bitkub has game time to improve employees’ relationships with one another. Before going home for the weekend, everyone does a Retrospective, reflecting on whether the goal set on Monday was achieved or what blockades were preventing them from achieving the goal.
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Bitkub’s Recruitment Advertisement Campaign
Why Intern at Bitkub?
As a Bitkub intern, not only will you get knowledge on blockchain technology, running a business, and client relations, you will also get to meet and interact with some of the most amazing people in the tech industry. In addition, you will get to learn how fast-growing companies operate their human and technology resources to best expand their corporations.
Internships, especially at future-led and vision-focused companies, are an awesome way to spend your summer. However, Bitkub stands out for various reasons. Firstly, if you ever get tired, you can always take a nap at the office inside their sleeping space. Secondly, if you ever need to save money for an occasion, Bitkub’s food allowance and free haircut makes is the perfect place for you. Thirdly, if you enjoy playing games and meeting new people, you will also get to enjoy that at Bitkub. Interning at this startup offers a lifetime experience that enables you to form long-lasting connections with incredible, wonderful human beings.
References
- https://www.cappex.com
- https://fremont.edu/8-benefits-of-an-internship/
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuSAobUE6tY
—Editor-in-Chief Manyasiri (Pear) Chotbunwong can be reached at manyasiric23@rism.ac.th. Follow her on instagram @peary.chot.
