Day 7 - First day of work

Morning

Today was the first day of work, Tamara and Philippe picked us up at 8am at our apartment, then we went to Brooklyn for the workday, before starting working we took a coffe and meet our boss.

Then we spent the morning at the coworking space for the introduction of the project we will do, it is an early stage startup and our job as software engineers and mediamaticians is to analyse possible technical solution to solve this specific problem, and finally to deliver something demo-able and pitch-able, that consist of mockups and landing page, to investors in order to build the Minimum viable product.

The project is pretty interesting and challenging.

Afternoon

After the first block of work we went to lunch all together and meet our second company’s boss, Lukas from Greater Zurich Area.

In the afternoon we went back to the coworking and Lukas presented us what the company Greater Zurich Area does: it’s main business it to help US companies to move to Switzerland.

Then he explained us what our job will be, we will maintain the Greater Zurich Area website, work on SEO, and website content. There are already a set of tasks ready to pick.

Initially Noemi and Simon will work for Greater Zurich Area, and me (Thomas), Florin, Chiara and Sven will work on the startup project, and then we will rotate teams.

After the workday we visited Williamsburg and hang out under the Brooklyn bridge.

For dinner we went to a typical Texan restaurant.