Networking products engineer Review

The goal of tasks I am being assigned is to improve my team's overall technical understanding of Intel's networking products. Improving documentation, dealing with customer issues, debugging issues and code is my daily work. If I can fix a problem on a networking product, I do it, and my job is also to collaborate with others to find solutions that will help to move Intel's networking products forward.

I have learnt skills including debugging, and writing better code. I have gained deep knowledge of time synchronization, and how networks are being deployed in telecommunications companies. I gained experience on how to behave in professional environment. I know now, what I am capable of, and what are my limitations, so that I can work on them.

Yes, I have been given much responsibility during my placement. I am responsible for documentation, that users use to deploy their networks. Workarounds I have found are being used and relied on by the biggest telecommunications companies. Code I have fixed has been merged into the main branch of the application, an application being used widely in the industry.

In a first few months, I have gained lots of support and guidance, which helped me with smoother transition. That included an official training prepared by Intel. For the last 6 months, I was able to work independently much more, which helped me develop my own flow of working.

The atmosphere in the office is quite relaxed. Most of people know their stuff about technology, and they can talk about it. Company values, like 'one Intel' are rather followed, which creates actual feeling of being in a group that drives innovation. There are more stressful times at times, but they usually do not last very long.

I did enjoy it very much. Other than learning lots of technical and soft skills, I had opportunity to volunteer, and meet new people. The community of interns was welcoming, and I felt like a part of a group. Hopefully I will stay in contact with some of the interns I met here.

Yes

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