Technical Program Manager Intern Review

Joining/holding meetings to ensure projects are on track and not running into issues or helping to solve any road blocks that may be hampering progress.

I have learnt and developed a lot of management and organizational skills, such as how to keep good minutes of a meeting, how to break an objective down into a project and create a timeline, how to manage stakeholders and understand what they want delivered from a project.

I was given some responsibility in holding scoping meetings with stakeholders and ML engineers to understand what the deliverables of a project were and its preliminary timeline. However my primary intern project was not related to this and was more of a documentation task not related to an ongoing project.

I received much support and guidance from many members of my team and was always encouraged to ask for help and extra tasks to do on top of my primary project. The people around me were all very kind and willing to give advice to me through out the whole process whenever I asked.

The company culture was great with Expedia having multiple company wide and intern specific events in my time as an intern. The office has some very good event spaces and a roof top terrace where they hosted quizzes, dinners and drinks throughout my time there.

I enjoyed the placement very much due to the kindness of the team I worked with as well as the general culture of the company. It was less technical that I had first realized but was a great experience in working around data scientists and engineers on large projects in a more organizational and management focused position.

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