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"My time at IME has been a mix of learning, figuring things out, making mistakes, and gradually getting better. Commercial shipping was a completely new industry for me, so there was a lot to learn early on — but that's also what made it interesting. I've worked across market research, content, and sales, which helped me discover what I actually enjoy. I've also been given the space to try things on my own and learn through the process. It's been challenging at times, but it's the kind of challenge that's helped me grow, both professionally and personally."

"Working at IME has been a genuinely valuable experience, especially since this was my first internship in the maritime industry. In just a month, I've been involved in research, connecting with industry professionals, and sitting in on meetings — all of which sharpened my research, communication, and marketing skills while giving me a real understanding of the sector. The team here is supportive and approachable, and that sense of teamwork makes the environment comfortable to work in. Overall, it's given me practical exposure and a lot more confidence in a professional setting."

"Working at IME has honestly been a different kind of learning experience. Commercial shipping was completely new to me, and while there was a lot to figure out early on, I've grown genuinely interested in the industry over time. What I like most is that the work isn't limited to one role — I've gotten to explore research, sales, and business development, all while learning how shipping actually works. There have been challenging days, but they've made me more confident, more independent, and more comfortable taking initiative. IME gave me the chance to learn things I probably wouldn't have explored otherwise."

"I came in thinking I'd mostly be gluing APIs together, but I end up touching everything — the interface a charterer actually clicks through, the logic behind it, sometimes the database schema if something's modeled wrong. Nobody hands you a spec and disappears, but nobody's looking over your shoulder either. You figure out the right way to build something, and then you're trusted to keep doing that."

"Nobody warned me how much of 'leading a team' here is still just doing the work alongside everyone else — building, debugging, occasionally breaking something in staging. What I didn't expect was how fast we actually fix problems. If something's not working, we don't sit on it until the next planning cycle. Half my job is clearing whatever's in my team's way; the other half is making sure we're pointed at the right thing."

"The steepest part of this job wasn't the code — it was learning enough shipping to know if the code was even solving the right problem. Coming from a bigger company, I wasn't used to just deciding things myself. Here, if you think there's a better way to build something, you say it, and it usually happens within the week. The maritime side took a couple of months to click, but the team was patient about it, and now I genuinely enjoy the edge cases that never came up in my last job."

"Half my week is spent with ship operators trying to understand what's actually broken for them, and the other half is with engineers figuring out what we can realistically ship. That loop is tight, which is the whole point — you're never far from either side. The hard part isn't deciding what to build, it's deciding what not to build yet, since there's always more worth doing than time to do it."

"I didn't want a job repeating the same three talking points across every channel — I wanted to figure out what actually lands with people who've never thought about maritime tech before. Most of what I do is translation: taking something genuinely technical, like route optimization or laytime automation, and explaining why it matters to someone who's never heard those words. Nobody hands me a brand playbook and walks away — I get to build the voice as I go."

"Before this internship, marketing to me meant social media captions and not much else. Here I've written product pages, dug through competitor research, and sat in on calls just to understand how shipping people actually talk, which turned out to matter more than I expected. Nobody double-checks every sentence before it goes out, which was scary at first, but it's also how I learned faster than I would have anywhere else."

"Nobody in shipping is waiting around for a new tool to sell itself to them — you have to earn every conversation. What's been different here is that each call with a chartering desk teaches me something I bring back into how we sell, not just what we sell. IME gives me room to actually build the relationship instead of rushing for a quick close, and that's paid off more than once."

"I expected to spend my days in spreadsheets, and some days I still do — but I'm also in the room for hiring decisions and pricing calls that most finance roles never get near. What's stood out is how early I get looped in, not after the fact when there's already a mess to explain. It's made the job feel a lot more like being part of the business than just reporting on it."

"Running operations here means keeping nine different tools, a growing customer base, and a small team all moving in the same direction — without burying anyone in process for its own sake. I've had the room to build workflows that actually match how our team works day to day, instead of forcing everyone into a framework I picked off a template. It's a lot to hold together some weeks, but I like that fixing something on my end makes everyone else's week easier."