Swastik Gaurav Drona
EKO, Gurgaon
Serendipity it was when I was selected for my summer
internship at EKO in Gurgaon. The excitement of first work experience in a
corporate world was at its high since the final list of shortlisted names for
the internship at EKO had my name. It was time for me to leave my cocoon and
explore the plethora of opportunities of the corporate world.
The most difficult task even before the internship had
started was to find a place to live in Gurgaon, being one of the most expensive
cities and us being students it was a hard nut to crack. Thanks to the online
renting portals such as housing.com which provided us with lots of contacts of
the brokers which finally led us to a good place to rest our backs.
Then came the most awaited day, the first day of our
internship. We properly dressed in formals reached the sharp 9 in the morning.
The office interiors were amazing, it was literally beyond our expectations.
All the green plants had proper place in the office, bean bags lying around,
dart game hanging in middle of the office, white boards all having some data,
small tasks and big targets, an eye catching CCD coffee maker and for coffee
lover like me it could be the best thing.
We were asked to sit in a separate cabin which was looking
very appealing as each cubical was beautifully decorated with the personal
interests of the employees. Then came a sparkling smile to end our wait and I
mean it, it was worth waiting as the company’s HR manager Miss Pooja entered
the room we all greeted her good morning ma’am, but we saw some unexpected
expression on her face, all of us were perplexed, she noticed it and then we
were explained there is no sir or ma’am culture at EKO and gradually with her
personal experience at EKO and HR skills she charmed us with the beautiful
experience she had working at EKO.
The next day we were assigned the projects and fortunately I
got the operation’s project with my batch mate as a team member. The project
was to define a new age customer experience and define a superlative channel
for the E-value process. The projects sounded interesting and gradually working
under Mr. Deepak Singhal our mentor and simultaneously with Mrs. Mugdha
Bhargawa it felt like working in a homely environment. Our mentors were
extremely supportive both professionally as well as in personal life. Their was no time boundation as well as attire code for us which created a very
comfortable working environment for us.
Till now it was just the silence before the storm which was
followed by turbulence of work pressure of study and analysis of the company
data. When you sit on huge chunk of data either you ruin the opportunity to
extract diamonds or you end by satisfied with some silver. With help of both
our mentors and the whole operations team which was extremely cooperative as
well, we at least managed to extract gold i.e. gave some fruitful results of
the data analysis. It was followed by meetings with our highest business
providers and customer care center of EKO where we tried to drill to depths of
customer issues. The trust which our mentors showed in us motivated us to do
better and better with course of time.
Time just flew by in the two months of internship and at
last it came to an end. But wait it was not over yet the last week of ours was
booked for parties and I mean ample of wonderful parties by EKO. It was a
wonderful experience and I would recommend the coming students to give it a try
at EKO and I assure you will not be disappointed.
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