Software Engineer Intern
Job function (e.g., overall role, assigned tasks)
- Write, maintain, and develop clean, efficient, and scalable code for new features or applications
- Create and execute test plans, identify and test bugs, and ensure software quality through unit, integration, and functional testing
- Participate in code reviews, provide constructive feedback to peers, and learn from discussions of senior engineers
- Contribute to technical documentation, user guides, and process descriptions
- Work closely with cross-functional teams
- Participate in agile software development processes, including sprint planning and contributing to daily team activities
Examples of Projects:
I got to work on two projects at LinkedIn: Generic Personalization and Social Proof
With generic personalization, I got to see how a product gets brought to life from start to finish. With this project, I felt empowered to take charge and get my hands dirty with learning all about the software development life cycle. Here I collaborated with product and design, figuring out the best way to relay to marketers about two macros that’ll help distinguish ads from LinkedIn promos, by giving promos a more personalized touch, creating mock designs, and then writing the code, adding macro validations, writing tests, then successfully ramping the product.
Then because we finished that project, I helped out with Social Proofing – the phenomenon that\’s also called informational social influence, where people copy the actions of others to emulate behavior in situations. I helped with developing the UI.
Learnings and how it relates to my major Business Administration focus in Management Information Systems:
Although I have just recently transferred to SJSU, I can see how the classes set up its students to be successful. In my systems analysis and design class (BUS4-110B) we learned about the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) – planning, analysis, design, implementation, and maintenance and the importance of each phase in a successful project. In my internship, we went over the Product Requirement Document (PRD) recognizing the need for this product, designing how it should look, then went into implementing or coding the actual product. I\’ve also participated in the agile software development and attended weekly sprints constantly tracking progress in Confluence JIRA.
Check out: My LinkedIn appreciation post