In my second day at SAS, I shadowed Ms. Holland for the whole day. When I got there, I joined a meeting she was leading featuring several interns and another Cary Academy student. We learned about automation in terms of testing, and how the SAS employees automate tasks in order to test their products. We learned about the different software they use for this automation as well as what its goal is to assist them in their jobs at the company.
After that, Ms. Holland taught me some more specific information about the software and we followed her around as she helped the interns set it up. We were able to learn quite a bit about it by simply observing. After this, we went to lunch in a new building- SAS has some pretty fantastic cafeterias.
After lunch, we took a brief tour around SAS. The most enjoyable part was definitely viewing Dr. Goodnight’s gem collection from all around the world. He displays it in the building so that all of the employees can come see it.
After this, we were able to meet with somebody named Max who worked in development. Since Ms. Holland works in testing, and Max works in development, we were able to see all the different important parts of development for SAS. He recently graduated so we got to hear about his schooling experience and what led him to working at SAS- It was very cool to meet someone close to our own age. After this, the day was over- I learned a lot and saw some very cool things.