My internship goals that I have so achieved


At the start of my internship, I listed two significant goals: To write a thorough product specification for the feature my team was adding to Microsoft Excel and explore the Excel codebase and write code to add the feature.
After eight weeks in the internship, I am eighty percent towards achieving these goals. In the fourth week of my internship, we wrote a product specification for the project feature. Additionally, my team organized a review session with six full-time product managers who commended my team for the thorough work in putting the specification together. An essential aspect of writing the specification was conducting over fifteen customer sessions to learn the exact pain points Excel customers face that our feature will solve.
Then, I worked on my first software engineering task that required me to understand how certain parts of the Excel codebase work and write code that formed a crucial part of our minimum viable product. I successfully got that code working, and I await creating my first code review this coming week. After working on that code, I noticed that my implementation did not fully cover some edge cases, so I took the second task of adding those edge cases. “The next task you take on is the reason we got this project,” my manager said during a meeting this week. The development aspect of the project is an opportunity to challenge me as I work on core tasks related to our project.
Moving forward, I hope to complete my next task, prepare for the project presentations, and continue attending more networking events.

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