What does a typical working day at doubleSlash look like? What does a developer actually do and what is programming anyway? Ten school pupils came to doubleSlash last Friday as part of "Wissen was geht" to find out the answers to these and other questions.
The event, which has been organized by the Bodensee district business development agency since 2004, sees training companies in the region open their doors to young people between the ages of 14 and 20 to give them an interesting insight into everyday life at the company over the course of a day.
After a brief introduction to the company and the most important job profiles in IT, a tour of the company with a look into the server room awaited the potential young IT talents. Phillipe Haug (IT specialist for system integration), Markus Wingler (IT specialist for application development) and Sandra Stöhle (office administrator) then presented their day-to-day work and activities at doubleSlash.
And then the young people were allowed to get their hands dirty themselves: In a small programming competition, they learned the basics of programming. The task: to recreate the doubleSlash logo using the Robot Carol programming language. The realization: it's not that difficult. And it's even fun.
At the end of the day, 14-year-old Tim "can well imagine doing an apprenticeship or studying computer science, especially at doubleSlash, because of the good working atmosphere."
"doubleSlash is committed to promoting young talent and has been involved in campaigns such as 'Wissen was geht' or Girls Day for many years. It is important to us to give young people a real insight into a medium-sized IT company and thus support them in their career choices and orientation," says Nadine Schiffmann, HR Manager at doubleSlash. And this also works in practice: last year, doubleSlash was able to hire a trainee in systems engineering who found her way into the company through 'Wissen was geht'. "That shows us that these campaigns are having an impact," says Schiffmann.
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