akrish

Today was my last day of my internship at VMware. If you don’t know what they do, definitely check them out; they are probably one of the coolest tech companies around. My internship experience was pretty amazing and I was surprised that I was kind of sad to leave work for the last time.

I think one of the things that I’ll miss the most is the people that I met, and the conversations that I had with them. Not only did we have technical conversations, on subjects ranging from startup ideas to computer architecture and AVL trees, but we talked about golf, foosball, movies, our homes, our schools, and pretty much everything else you can think of. After spending 12 weeks with the same people, seeing them every day (or every weekday), you end up becoming pretty good friends with them, and then all of sudden work ends and I may never see them again.

But on the other hand, now I have friends all over the US. I met people from North Carolina, New York (a lot from New York), Michigan, Minnesota, and of course other parts of California, and it’s cool because some of us may end up working or going to school in the same place and it would be pretty good to have someone I know wherever I end up.

And of course there was the technical part of my internship. I feel like I learned so much from the experience, but not necessarily about computer science. Rather, I learned what working for a company is like and how being a developer is very different from being a computer science student or researcher. I think there’s enough to talk about here that I’ll leave it for a future post. Actually I think there may be several more posts about my internship, as it was the single most significant thing about my summer.

Anyway, thanks a lot VMware (the company and all of the people that I met). The experience was amazing and I would love to be able to come back later on.