Today is the 8th and final day of my work experience at SAS. We started the day in building R to meet a employee that does the QUX or quality user experience of the product. She talked a lot about her job and gave us a very in depth tutorial on how to use the product she has been working on. She also showed us a broken product and how she is able to give critiques back to the UI developers to fix. After the meeting we jumped boat to meet another SAS employee named Dan. Dan does a lot of the UI aspect of the products, which meant how it looks on the screen to customers. I was really interested in how all the parts of the product is compiled together, so he drew a diagram that showed the progression from the client all the way down the main servers. He also talked a lot about his previous job at a very small start-up company. He described it to be much more fun and enjoyable because you are able to watch your company grow. But he has also enjoyed SAS since it is more flexible on due dates and it is much more stable because the reason he had to leave the start-up was because an investment fell through.
For the second half of the day, we all met up again in building A to present our final projects. Although we only had around two days to do it, I felt like we all made very solid videos. It has been an amazing two weeks at SAS. Everybody is really nice and the campus is also very pretty. I really felt immersed in SAS culture and will definitely not forget about the food.
Peace.