I vividly remember the day when I learned more about t-matix. It was two months ago, when my senior colleague Matko introduced me to his success story.

While having coffee in a place near our faculty, Matko shared how, after doing a one-year student job, he got the job offer and officially joined t-matix frontend team. His insights were extremely valuable. He told me all I wanted to know about the team, the company profile, and the business in general. There was no doubt, I liked what I heard. t-matix seemed like a well-oiled machine, and I realized that the chance of participating in developing the IoT platform was not the only reason I wanted to do my co-op there. So, the very next day, my application was already on the way.

The first look at the office was not what I had expected. It was open and spacious. There was a lot of light and the place was filled with monitors, when all I had expected were hallways and rooms. Also, it was bizarre seeing x marks on some of the desks, but that was understandable given the new regulations pertaining to the COVID-19 situation. Disinfectants were all over the place, some rooms were closed, but that didn’t seem to undermine the good atmosphere pervading the place.

After a brief introduction to the team, Davor and Matko helped me to set up my working environment and gave me a high-level overview of the project that I would be enrolled in. Everyone was so helpful and cheerful, which made me feel at ease.

The next day, I learned more about the company structure and the product itself through video presentations prepared by t-matix heads and team leads. I was surprised to learn that t-matix had started developing the platform six years ago, when IoT had not been such a buzzword yet. The founders conceived a flexible and programming-free solution that eventually found its rightful place on the DACH region market. Today, companies in various industries rely on the t-matix IoT solution to digitize their products and processes. The platform is complex, but that explains, I guess, why it rocks the ingestion of all incoming data. 

After building Redux, I was assigned another task, namely to create a button that would do something on click. Even though the task seemed fairly easy and was not supposed to be time-consuming, I wanted to do it as best I could and with all the right components. I wanted to create something unique, so I put extra time into it.

In the next couple of weeks, I played with tables and gathered information with Ajax. While creating different tables, I started implementing some Line and Pie charts. It all started to make more sense, and I finally started to figure out each separate component and part of the program. After Davor saw that I knew how to handle information, I was assigned the hardest task yet – showing different time zones and manipulating seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, and years. Basically, time manipulation. On top of that, I had to create a map that would show all the cities that I picked for showing the time. To my surprise, I was done in less than a week. My expectations regarding how long it would take me to create the whole thing had probably never been less realistic. I thought I would finish no sooner than by the end of the co-op. Davor was surprised but also very proud of the work that I had done and the commitment that I had shown.

What is more, I even tackled a bugfix. My team found a bug, and they wanted me to see it as well, and then fix it. I managed to do it in 2 hours. I was confident and genuinely happy because I finally gained some practical knowledge and experienced real teamwork.

Even though I finished my internship working from home, I had felt part of the team the whole time. I met creative and ambitious developers that work independently. They will like you if you are proactive, present new ideas, and are not afraid of facing a problem. To recap, I have to say that the time spent in t-matix was a unique experience and a fun one as well. I had a lot of work to do, but it was all worth it. I even got the chance to play the company quiz. I feel like I learned a lot, and I would recommend the company to anyone who is just starting with his/her co-op. Next year, I will again do my co-op in t-matix, for sure. As in Matko’s case, I firmly believe that my success story is just around the corner.

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