My Internship, Part 1

Today, I officially completed my fourth week of internship in HP and oh boy, what an amazing experience it was. In just four weeks, I had been through and learned so much. My current batch (including me) consists of five interns from two different universities and we are the guinea pigs for HP new internship programme structure.

During the first week of intern, we were given training and exposure on several of the technologies used by HP. Through this training, I found out that there were so many technologies use by the industries that I have never heard about. After the training on the second week, we were given a mini project where we were supposed to apply most of the technologies we learned during the training and this project is to be completed within 2 weeks.

Therefore, we began working on the project with barely any experience in those technologies, working extra hours for several days, seeking experts help for each particular technology and having several checkpoint meetings with the manager. After 2 weeks, we finally presented our work to a director, managers and several staff. Those 2 weeks had really been taxing for us. I had to produce an analytic report which I have NO EXPERIENCE using that software and never heard of it until I join HP and also code PHP for the mobile app we were developing. I really thank God I used PHP for my fyp. All I have to do is reuse my codes with a bit of changes here and there.

All our hardwork, time and agony were eventually paid off as the director and managers were satisfied with our work. Never I would have imagine we will able to deliver a project with a wide scope, limited time and almost zero experience. I am really proud of our achievement.

Well, this is just the beginning. The 5 of us were split into two different group today to work with different managers on different projects. I will post on my next internship experience in part 2 after a few weeks. I would also like to take this opportunity to thank a friend who was willing to listen to me release stress and complain. xD