As I approach the end of my internship as a backend software engineering intern at Coursera, I took the opportunity to jot down some thoughts about what the experience was like and what I took away from it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I want to share some of the highlights\/accomplishments first and in the next post, I will share some of the lowlights\/learning experiences I also had during my internship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What were some of my top achievements during this internship, and how did it impact the team\/company\/business? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I was able to contribute business logic to validate products and academic disciplines as well as ensure that students were getting subscribed to the most updated version of their specialization. I also helped work on migrating the code for configuring products in bulk so it could also support the configuration of specializations in bulk. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This helped the Coursera C4C development team in their efforts to build self-serve tooling to make it easier for C4C customers to find and offer academic disciplines and for credit courses to their learners. <\/p>\n\n\n\n By improving the efficiency and usability of the set-up process, Coursera can potentially unlock more C4C revenue and increase adoption of Coursera as a solution for universities looking to offer online for-credit courses and teach their students important and high-demand career skills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n How has this internship helped me in reaching your professional goals? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I\u2019ve gotten a chance to work with some really talented people who taught me a lot about how to approach problems and function effectively within a team. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I also gained more experience as well as confidence in my ability to learn new things and be successful as a software engineer and teammate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I\u2019ve worked with some new languages and technologies such as Java, Scala and been able to contribute to a product that I\u2019ve used and admired for a long time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I have a clearer idea of what I\u2019d like to do in the future with my career, a clearer understanding of what I need to do to get there and more self-assurance that I can reach my goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Conclusion<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Overall, I can say that this internship really exceeded my expectations. I learned much more in three months than I could have really imagined at the beginning of the internship. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I also felt that the quality of the experience I had itself was really good, thanks to the effort that the team I worked on and the recruiting team put into making sure my internship went well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In the next post, I will try to share some of the lowlights and learning experiences I had during the internship, as well as what growth areas I’d like to develop next.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thanks for taking the time to read my post!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As I approach the end of my internship as a backend software engineering intern at Coursera, I took the opportunity to jot down some thoughts about what the experience was like and what I took away from it. I want to share some of the highlights\/accomplishments first and in the next post, I will share […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12351,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/relativelyspeaking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/relativelyspeaking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/relativelyspeaking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/relativelyspeaking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12351"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/relativelyspeaking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/relativelyspeaking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/relativelyspeaking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions\/19"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/relativelyspeaking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/relativelyspeaking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/relativelyspeaking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}