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diff --git a/hireme/script.txt b/hireme/script.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5a996bd --- /dev/null +++ b/hireme/script.txt @@ -0,0 +1,52 @@ + +In this semester, I interned at 7Factor Engineering, LLC. +My site supervisor this semester was Ms Chelsea Green, a senior software +engineer at 7Factor. +This role is similar to a management role. + +While I was at the internship site---actually, scratch that. +This internship was conducted entirely online because of COVID-19, so +while I didn't need to drive anywhere, I also didn't see any of my +coworkers in person. +The entire company, especially at the beginning of my internship in +January, was conducting business online because software development +is less tied to a central location than other careers. + +My responsibilities centered around writing code to fix bugs or add +features to WellEntry. +WellEntry is a, quote, ``digitally accelerated health screening +solution'' to help clients like schools or offices protect against +COVID. +This included writing the code, of course, but also writing a lot about +what the code does in ``Pull Requests,'' a way of saying ``this code is +ready to be reviewed,'' and fixing issues in the visible form, +usable functionality, or code style. +I also communicated a lot with my team lead and other people working +with WellEntry (like Chief Product Officer Justin Cullifer) over Slack, +where 7Factor workers discuss engineering problems and solutions. + +I chose to work in software development because I want to be a software +developer in my professional career, so I was interested in getting +hands-on experience with a project that needs to respond quickly to user +needs. + +From this internship experience, I now know that I want to be a software +developer if the career is anything like my internship, because I love +this kind of problem-solving, even if it requires banging your head +against the wall over and over and over again. +I also learned that I get really focused into a task, which, while +sometimes beneficial, means that I should focus more on intentionally +managing my priorities and schedules between different assignments and +responsibilities. + +The most interesting thing I saw during my internship was the day that +my code broke prod. +7Factor, like a lot of other good companies in the software development +space, blames the process rather than the person for the issue, so the +team that was fixing it up focused on quickly reverting the last release +so that the issue would stop happening, and writing tests to make sure +it doesn't happen again. + +This internship has taught me a lot about how to structure maintainable +code on a large, team-built project where I don't know every detail of +many of the components. |