Business Technology Intern Review

Working as a part of an existing development team, you will be responsible a developing a system component that aligns with an actual business goal. Day-to-day you will be gaining hands on experience from other team members to develop your personal career goals to improve your effectiveness towards business goals as a software engineer.

Given the significant size of the systems and teams that are involved in Discover, there are opportunities to understand how development systems work at scale. Tools and technologies include Jenkins, Nexus Lifecycle, SonarQube, Cucumber, JUnit and Grafana.

Within their microservices architecture, I was given responsibility over a one small but important service which is used by 100s of developers within the company. This included migrating it to a different platform, creating unit, integration and cucumber tests and revamping the UI.

The onboarding process and general guidance from HR was particularly well organized and allowed me to feel become a productive member of my team really quickly. Aside from my line manager, within the team I was assigned a mentor who would answer any technical questions I had. Generally, all members of my team were really approachable and would offer help whenever I asked. There were also Intern Networking Circle (INC) sessions led by a previous intern as a chance to socialize with other interns.

Everyone is very approachable, allowing me to feel comfortable asking any questions even if they may appear basic. There seemed to be no barriers to conversation between people at different seniority and in different teams.

It was an extremely worthwhile use of my summer, and I gained a lot more than University could provide alone.

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Make sure you research the Discover values (the DISCOVER acronym) and the three Discover behaviors (We play to win, we get better every day, and we succeed together) and how they resonate with you.