I got more confident in asking for work, without people having to ask me first.
By wamo ·
That's Ceylin Muminoglu, summer intern at wamo, on how three weeks changed the way she worked. It's a small line, but it captures something bigger about her time there. She didn't just learn tasks, she learned to trust herself enough to ask for them.
Three Weeks, Three Departments
Ceylin's internship was split into rotations, one department a week. She started in operations, shadowing client onboarding and learning the mechanics of reconciliation, alongside less glamorous tasks like logging card numbers one by one. Week two moved her into POS operations, which she found far more hands-on: inventory work, customer complaints, and calls with other wamo teams. By week three, she'd moved into finance, getting hands-on with suspense account reconciliation and complex spreadsheets.
She'd interned before, at a traditional bank, but wamo felt like a different kind of workplace entirely.
"It's a smaller office and everyone knows each other."
That scale changed how supported she felt. Less anonymous, more integrated. It also gave her an answer to the question that drew her to wamo in the first place. Watching onboarding and POS operations up close, she saw it directly: less red tape, faster and easier for the client. She left curious about EMIs as a category entirely, a subject she says she barely thought about going in.
Learning to Push
If there's one skill Ceylin says she's taking with her, it's persistence. In POS operations, coordinating the return of old machines meant regular follow-ups with merchants to confirm details and keep things moving. It wasn't a dramatic lesson, just a steady one: stay on top of things and see them through.
That same muscle showed up in how she approached her own work. By the end of the three weeks, she noticed she was more comfortable talking to people senior to her and people she didn't know — and, as she put it, more confident asking for work rather than waiting to be offered it.
Not Just There to Watch
Ceylin is upfront that, as an intern, most of her three weeks were about learning and shadowing rather than owning projects outright. But she says that was less about being sidelined and more about how deliberately wamo's team taught her. People took the time to walk her through what they were doing rather than handing her busywork. It's the reason she'd recommend interning there without hesitation:
"The people at wamo really care about your learning. They take time out of their day to teach you, and give you tasks that you can also do."
That same warmth defined the culture for her more broadly — a team that's genuinely productive day-to-day, but just as genuinely connected outside of it, over lunch or in passing conversation.
Three Words
Asked to sum up the whole experience, Ceylin didn't hesitate: "fun, insightful, exciting."
