Hello,
Welcome to Ohm City! Today you visit three companies: Respawn Games, DRIP Streetwear and Backbone IT. Every company has six floors, one for each department.
Your visitor pass (Besucherausweis) has six clues. Each clue leads you to one floor, and there you collect a stamp with one letter (Buchstabe). Six stamps make a code word for your workbook.
At the end, you choose the three internship places you like best.
Ms Borgwardt
Six clues, six stamps
A clue (Hinweis) describes some work in a company. Find the floor where this work happens. There you get a stamp (Stempel) with one letter: write it on paper, too. The six letters make a code word for the top of your workbook.
- Clue 1RESPAWN games.
The app stores pay Respawn six weeks late. The team still needs its salaries (Gehälter) on time. Which department pays the salaries and plans the money?
Go to Respawn GamesI need help
Look for the department that writes down every euro that comes in or goes out.
- Clue 2DRIP streetwear.
For the next drop (a new sneaker model goes online), DRIP needs photos, videos and an Instagram countdown. Which department plans them?
Go to DRIP StreetwearI need help
Look for the department that works with influencers.
- Clue 3BACKBONE IT.
Thirty new doctors' practices want IT service from Backbone, but the technicians are already very busy. Which department makes the big decisions, for example which new customers Backbone takes?
Go to Backbone ITI need help
Look for the people who lead the whole company.
- Clue 4RESPAWN games.
After an update, Pixel Quest crashes on many phones. Which department has to find the bug?
Go to Respawn GamesI need help
Look for the team that builds the games and keeps the servers running.
- Clue 5DRIP streetwear.
Before the next drop, the warehouse (Lager) needs a new shift plan (Schichtplan): who works when? Which department plans the shifts?
Go to DRIP StreetwearI need help
Look for the department that hires new people and writes their contracts.
- Clue 6BACKBONE IT.
A law firm (Anwaltskanzlei) with twelve computers wants Backbone to look after its computers. Which department visits the office and writes an offer (Angebot) with a monthly price?
Go to Backbone ITI need help
Look for the department that wins new customers.
Your pass is full! The six letters make your code word. You write it in your workbook at the end.
Go to your three wishes- department
- Abteilung: a team in a company that does one kind of work
- floor
- Etage: one level of a building
- internship
- Praktikum: you work in a company for a short time and learn the job
- contact
- Ansprechperson: the person you work with and ask for help
- management
- Geschäftsführung: the people who lead the company and make the big decisions
- finance
- Finanzabteilung: the department that looks after the money
- sales
- Vertrieb: the department that sells to customers
- HR
- Personalabteilung: human resources, the department that looks after the people
Where do you go first?
Your clue tells you which company to visit. Click on it.
Mika TorresCo-founderVisit Respawn GamesDRIP streetwear.An online shop for sneakers and hoodies.We sell our own sneakers online in drops: a new model goes online on one evening, for 119 euros a pair.
Leyla ArslanFounder and ownerVisit DRIP StreetwearBACKBONE IT.IT service for doctors, lawyers and tax advisers.About 200 doctors' practices, law firms and tax offices pay us a fixed price every month to keep their computers running.
Sandra BeckHead of operationsVisit Backbone ITYour three wishes
When your visitor pass is full, choose the three internship places you like best and write them in your workbook.
Go to your three wishesHello, and welcome to Respawn Games! I'm Mika Torres. Jan Berger and I started this studio four years ago, and our best-known game is Pixel Quest.
About 500,000 people play our games every month. Downloading them is free, and about one player in ten buys small extras in the game. The app stores collect this money and pay us six weeks after the month ends.
Six floors, six departments
Click on a floor and find out what the department does and who works there.
Management
Geschäftsführung
Mika and Jan decide which games we build, how much money each project gets and when a game comes out. When two departments disagree, for example about a release date, they make the final decision. They also talk to banks and to companies that want to work with us.
2 people work on this floor:
Mika Torresco-founder
Jan Bergerco-founder
Finance
Finanzabteilung
Tom writes down every euro that comes in or goes out. He pays the bills and the salaries and plans the money for the next months. The app stores pay six weeks late, so he makes sure there is always enough money on the account.
1 person works on this floor:
TomFinanceTom in Finance pays the salaries and plans the money, so there is always enough on the account.
Stamp 1 is on your visitor pass: the letter I.
Marketing
Marketing
Marketing makes sure players find our games and want to play them. The team plans posts and trailers, works with streamers and reads the reviews in the app store. Right now it is planning the launch campaign for Pixel Quest 2.
2 people work on this floor.
Sales
Vertrieb
Our Sales person sells to other businesses: licences for schools and hotels, and deals with companies that want Pixel Quest characters on their own products. Sales writes the offers (Angebote) and negotiates (verhandelt) the prices.
1 person works on this floor.
Internship placeHR
Personalabteilung
Lisa finds new people, writes their contracts (Verträge) and plans their first days. She keeps an eye on (achtet auf) holidays and working hours. Before a launch, the team works a lot of overtime (Überstunden), and Lisa makes sure that nobody works too much.
1 person works on this floor:
LisaHRCurious what Lisa does all day?
First day for Ines, our new game artist
- Morning
- Coffee with Lisa and a walk through all six floors.
- Before lunch
- Laptop and accounts, then Ines signs her contract (Vertrag).
- Lunch
- Pizza with the whole team.
- Afternoon
- Ines gets her first small task: a new hat for a Pixel Quest character.
“A good first day helps new people stay, so I plan each one myself.”
Internship placeDevelopment & IT
Entwicklung und IT
Game designers, developers, artists and testers build our games and test every level. The team also keeps our servers running, because players are online day and night. When Pixel Quest crashes after an update, this team has to find the bug fast.
8 people work on this floor. Among them:
Kailead developer
LenatesterEMEmredeveloperCurious what Kai does all day?
Live screen: Pixel Quest servers
- Players online
- Every evening the number climbs, highest after dinner.
- Servers
- Three green lights: game, login and shop.
- Updates
- New versions go live in the morning.
- On call (Bereitschaft)
- This week, Kai keeps his phone next to his bed.
“If the number of players suddenly falls at night, something is broken, and my phone rings.”
Development & IT builds the games and keeps them running, so this team looks for the bug.
Stamp 4 is on your visitor pass: the letter E.
Hey, welcome to DRIP Streetwear! I'm Leyla Arslan. I sold our first sneakers from my bedroom, and today we are 20 people.
We sell in drops: a new sneaker model goes online at 8 p.m., for 119 euros a pair. For every drop, we order 400 pairs from our producer, and on a good evening all pairs are sold within a few hours. Customers send back every fourth pair.
Six floors, six departments
Click on a floor and find out what the department does and who works there.
Floor 1ManagementGeschäftsführung · 1 person
Floor 2FinanceFinanzabteilung · 1 person
Floor 3MarketingMarketing · 3 peopleInternship place
with Nele
Floor 4SalesVertrieb · 2 peopleInternship place
with Sven
Floor 5HRPersonalabteilung · 1 person
Floor 6Shop & ITShop und IT · 3 peopleWarehouse & Shipping (Lager und Versand), 9 people. The biggest team at DRIP packs and ships every order. It receives new deliveries from our producer and checks every pair that comes back.
Piotr Adamskiteam lead
Management
Geschäftsführung
Leyla decides which models DRIP sells, how many pairs we order and when a drop happens. She has grown the company from one person to 20 and still makes most big decisions herself. That makes DRIP fast, but a lot of work waits for her.
1 person works on this floor:
Leyla Arslanfounder and owner
Finance
Finanzabteilung
Finance pays the producer, the rent and the salaries. At DRIP, the money for a drop goes out long before it comes back: we pay the producer when we order new pairs. The money from customers only comes in weeks later, on the drop evening.
1 person works on this floor.
Internship placeMarketing
Marketing
Marketing plans every drop: photos, videos, the Instagram countdown and the work with influencers. A good drop sells every pair in one evening, a weak one leaves hundreds of pairs in the warehouse. Marketing also watches which colours and sizes people ask for.
3 people work on this floor. Among them:
NeleMarketingCurious what Nele does all day?
Instagram countdown for the next drop
- One week before
- A dark photo: only the shoe's shadow.
- Three days before
- A short video from the warehouse.
- Noon on drop day
- We show the colour for the first time.
- Evening of the drop
- At 8 p.m. the shop opens. The team watches the orders.
“People should feel the drop coming before they see the shoe.”
Marketing plans every drop: the photos, the videos, the countdown and the work with influencers.
Stamp 2 is on your visitor pass: the letter N.
Internship placeSales
Vertrieb
Sales sells DRIP models to other shops: sneaker stores in other cities order bigger amounts at a time and pay a lower price per pair. Sales writes the offers (Angebote), agrees on the prices and makes sure these shops pay on time.
2 people work on this floor. Among them:
Sven HolmSalesCurious what Sven does all day?
Email from a new shop
- From
- A new sneaker shop in another city
- Subject
- Can we try your shoes first?
- Message
- We would like two sample pairs (Musterpaare) for our shop window.
- Sven's note
- Call the shop, send the samples, then write an offer in the same week.
“Shops buy from people they know, so I call every new shop before I send a price.”
HR
Personalabteilung
HR hires new people, writes their contracts (Verträge) and plans the shifts. Many people in the warehouse work part-time or only in drop weeks, so HR plans a new schedule for every drop. DRIP hired its first HR person this year.
1 person works on this floor.
HR plans a new schedule for every drop, because many people in the warehouse only work in drop weeks.
Stamp 5 is on your visitor pass: the letter R.
Shop & IT
Shop und IT
This team runs the online shop: product pages, payment, the size filter and the servers. On a drop evening, thousands of people open the shop at 8 p.m. at the same time. If the shop is slow then, customers leave and buy somewhere else.
3 people work on this floor.
Hello and welcome to Backbone IT. I'm Sandra Beck, head of operations. We look after the computers, networks and data of doctors' practices, law firms and tax offices all over Ohm City.
About 200 customers pay us a fixed price every month for a service contract. For this, we keep their systems running and help when something breaks: our contracts promise help within one hour.
Six floors, six departments
Click on a floor and find out what the department does and who works there.
Floor 1ManagementGeschäftsführung · 3 peopleInternship placewith Sandra
Floor 2FinanceFinanzabteilung · 4 peopleInternship place
with Amara
Floor 3MarketingMarketing · 4 people
Floor 4SalesVertrieb · 6 people
Floor 5HRPersonalabteilung · 3 people
Floor 6TechniciansTechnik (IT) · 52 peopleOffice & Dispatch (Büro und Disposition), 8 people. When a customer calls with a problem, the call lands here. The team writes a ticket and decides which technician goes where, so that Backbone keeps the one-hour promise.
Samuel Mensahteam lead
Internship placeManagement
Geschäftsführung
Two managing directors and Sandra, our head of operations, lead the company. They decide which services Backbone offers, how many technicians we need and which new customers we take on. They also negotiate with the works council (Betriebsrat), which speaks for the employees.
3 people work on this floor. Among them:
Sandra Beckhead of operationsCurious what Sandra does all day?
Decisions this week
- Done
- Buy a second van (Transporter) for the technicians.
- Open
- Which training (Schulung) do the apprentices get next?
- Waiting
- Sales sent an offer to a big law firm. Will they say yes?
- Every Friday
- Sandra and the managing directors check the wall together.
“Everyone in the company can read this wall and see what we decided.”
Management decides how many technicians Backbone needs and which new customers it takes on.
Stamp 3 is on your visitor pass: the letter T.
Internship placeFinance
Finanzabteilung
Finance sends about 200 invoices (Rechnungen) every month, one for each contract, plus extra invoices for work outside the contracts. It checks who has paid, sends reminders to those who have not paid yet, and pays the salaries of 80 people.
4 people work on this floor. Among them:
Amara Oseihead of Finance
LukasapprenticeCurious what Amara does all day?
Who still has to pay us?
- Dentist's practice
- Late again: Amara calls, then a reminder (Zahlungserinnerung) goes out.
- Law firm
- Paid this morning, so Amara ticks it off the list.
- Tax adviser
- New owner: call first, then send the invoice again.
- Every Monday
- Amara goes through this list with her team.
“Most customers pay on time. The few who forget get a friendly call first.”
Marketing
Marketing
Marketing makes Backbone known to doctors, lawyers and tax advisers: the website, a newsletter, a stand at trade fairs and stories about happy customers. Our customers are businesses, so Marketing speaks to office managers and owners.
4 people work on this floor.
Sales
Vertrieb
Sales wins new customers and renews (verlängert) old contracts. For each practice or law firm, Sales visits the office, counts computers and printers and writes an offer (Angebot) with a monthly price. A new contract usually runs for three years.
6 people work on this floor.
Sales visits the office, counts the computers and printers and writes the offer.
Stamp 6 is on your visitor pass: the letter N.
HR
Personalabteilung
HR looks after 80 people: contracts, holidays, sick days and training. Twelve apprentices learn their job here, and HR plans their time between school and work. HR also plans the on-call weeks (Bereitschaft) with the technicians and talks to the works council.
3 people work on this floor. Among them:
Heike Brandthead of HR
Technicians
Technik (IT)
The technicians set up networks, repair computers, install updates and make backups for about 200 customers. Some solve problems on the phone, others drive to the customers. One team is always on call (Bereitschaft), because our contracts promise help within one hour.
52 people work on this floor. Among them:
Karim Haddadsenior technicianYour three wishes
Six floors in Ohm City have an internship place, two in each company. Here are all six. Open the job advert (Stellenanzeige) of every place that sounds good to you: it tells you what the team needs and what you do in the two days of your internship. Then choose the three places you like best and put them in order: wish 1 is the place you want most.
RESPAWN games.HRwith LisaIntern for our HR officeTwo days at Lisa's desk: help us decide who gets the job interviews.
We need a new junior developer, and 340 people applied. Lisa runs our HR office on her own, and Mika, one of our founders, wants a piece of software to choose the applicants for us. Before Friday's meeting, Lisa needs a rule: who decides, a person or the software? We are looking for an intern who helps her find a good answer.
- Day 1: At Lisa's desk. You learn how HR chooses new staff, do the pre-selection (Vorauswahl) for four real applications and find out how a screening tool (software that sorts applications) decides.
- Day 2: Test the tool, then decide. You check the tool with numbers, test it in a simulator, write Respawn's rule and present it to your classmates.
RESPAWN games.Development & ITwith KaiIntern for our development teamTwo days with Kai: plan a busy week and check an AI tool that writes code.
Pixel Quest 2 launches in six weeks, and the team has more tickets than hours. Kai, our lead developer, wants to try AutoDev, an AI assistant that writes code, and Emre, our youngest developer, is worried about it. We are looking for an intern who helps Kai plan the week and check the tool with real numbers.
- Day 1: At Kai's desk. You plan a real week of work with the team's rule for which ticket comes first, decide about a difficult ticket and find out what a study says about AI coding tools.
- Day 2: Faster, or slower? You check AutoDev with numbers, test it in a simulator, write the team's rule and present it to your classmates.
DRIP streetwear.Marketingwith NeleIntern for our marketing teamTwo days with Nele: plan a drop campaign and decide about AI product photos.
Our next drop is the DRIP Runner 2. Leyla, our founder, wants AI pictures from a tool called ShotGen instead of a photo shoot, and Nele worries that our customers will stop trusting us. We are looking for an intern who helps Nele plan the campaign and check the idea with real numbers.
- Day 1: At Nele's desk. You measure three campaign options with real numbers, choose the best plan and find out how an AI image generator works.
- Day 2: Cheaper pictures, but at what cost? You check ShotGen with numbers, test it in a simulator, write DRIP's rule for product pictures and present it to your classmates.
DRIP streetwear.Saleswith SvenIntern for our sales teamTwo days with Sven: write offers for sneaker shops and decide about prices that change during a drop.
After our last drop, resellers (people who buy to sell again) sold our sneakers for €200 a pair. Sven wants to try PriceBot, a tool that changes the price while people are buying, and our customer Malik is worried. We are looking for an intern who writes offers with Sven and checks PriceBot with real numbers.
- Day 1: At Sven's desk. You read the team chat after a drop, write offers for three sneaker shops, find a mistake in a draft offer and find out how dynamic pricing (prices that change while people buy) works.
- Day 2: Same shoe, new price? You check PriceBot with numbers, test it in a simulator, write DRIP's price rule and present it to your classmates.
BACKBONE IT.Managementwith SandraIntern for our management teamTwo days with Sandra: compare three options with a decision matrix and decide who answers the phone at night.
We promise every customer help within one hour, even at night, and our technicians are tired. An AI voice agent called CallMate could take the night calls, but a doctor worries about her patients' data. We are looking for an intern who helps Sandra compare the options and make a decision she can defend.
- Day 1: At Sandra's desk. You read a letter from the works council (Betriebsrat) and an email from a doctor, compare three options in a decision matrix (Entscheidungsmatrix) and find out how an AI voice agent works.
- Day 2: Whose weights count? You check CallMate with numbers, test the weights (Gewichtung) in a simulator, write Backbone's decision for the night calls and present it to your classmates.
BACKBONE IT.Financewith AmaraIntern for our finance teamTwo days with Amara: check real invoices (Rechnungen) and decide when a machine may pay on its own.
About 180 invoices arrive every month, and we check each one by hand. Amara wants to try PayFlow, a tool that pays invoices on its own, and a fake email with new bank details almost got our money. We are looking for an intern who checks invoices with Amara and tests PayFlow with real numbers.
- Day 1: At Amara's desk. You read the minutes (Protokoll) of the team meeting, compare four invoices with the order and the delivery note (Lieferschein) and find out how PayFlow and a real fraud case work.
- Day 2: Who pays when it goes wrong? You check PayFlow with numbers, test the payment limit in a simulator, write Backbone's payment rule and present it to your classmates.
- Download your workbook for today and open it.Download your workbook for todayThe file lands in your Downloads folder.
- At the top, write the code word from your visitor pass: the six letters of your stamps, in order.
- Wish 1, wish 2 and wish 3: for each wish, tick one internship place. Choose a different place for each wish.
- Under each wish, write one sentence: Why do you want this place? Use one fact from its floor or its job advert, for example a problem the team has right now.Help: “I want to work in (department) at (company), because (one fact from its floor or its job advert).” Example: “I want to work in Sales at DRIP Streetwear, because sneaker stores in other cities order from DRIP, and I would like to write their offers.”
- Save your workbook.
Check your workbook
- Click “Choose my workbook” and choose the file you saved.
- If the code word or a wish still needs something, the page tells you what. Add it, save the file and choose it here again.
Thank you for your visit to Ohm City! Your three wishes are in your workbook now. Keep the file, and tell Ms Borgwardt your wish 1.
Ms Borgwardt