Wheelstreet – An Internship Experience

Wheelstreet is a bike rental service platform headquartered in Bengaluru and operating in several Indian and International regions.

First few months of 2018, I had been vigorously looking for any sort of internship as an Operational or Finance intern, because I was required to complete 30 + day internship in the months of April and May as a partial requirement for the completion of B Com Hons degree from Christ University. I am the only one from Commerce background in my family of 5, and I had no formal and good contacts that I could have bagged an internship without any hustle.

It all started with applying to multiple organisations, companies’ even small firms, sent an e – mail to around 60+ companies asking them for an opportunity, applying on every internship portal that I could find. Although I got some calls but nothing matched with my requirements as I was looking primarily for a Finance internship, kept on applying here and there and waited for an opportunity to come my way.

Then one fine evening I was jogging in a park and I get a call from Wheelstreet, they required a Data Entry intern for a month, although I was convinced in my mind that I will convince them to allow to work as a Finance intern too which they agreed to later, yeah it was a call for an interview and I was finally relaxed that something that was matching my requirements came my way, I gasped as I was talking with the HR on the phone (as I was jogging a bit fast that time).

Next day I go for the interview, the process went very smoothly, I had a talk with HR and Operations head, and I bagged the internship. I was so excited for the internship that they had given me a task to complete in the first week for which I sat one night and completed it. When my guide came to know about it he was a bit happy with me. Over the days I continued working with utmost dedication and inputs, then a day came that I was feeling tired, bored, aloof and dispassionate all at the same time and I made mistake of taking a day off without informing my head and HR. As it was a policy in the company that you need to inform a day before taking a leave, that day I got a lot of calls and a bit scolding too from heads and I had to write mails to apologise.

Although I came back to track in no time and extended my time period to compensate for the leave, took extra work as a Finance intern, learned a lot from people around in the company specially from the CEO, I later realised that we both share the same surname and the same state (MP), I got a chance to talk to him on the last day of my internship, he is really inspiring he is just 26 and running a 6+ crores net worth of a company, I gained a lot by asking him about how did he manage to start a company and bring it to such a stature. Wheelstreet is today India’s largest bike rental services and I feel proud today to have been able to contribute in the growth of such company. All thanks goes to Internshala through I bagged this amazing internship opportunity.