Today is the 6th day of my work experience program at SAS. Similar to last week, we job shadowed a woman who worked in the R & D program, but worked in a different building. She worked on the testing of the UI(front-end) of some of the products. She gave us a really detailed description of her job and answered some of the questions we had for her. A really interesting detail was that her entire team is actually all girls, which is extremely rare at SAS. After discussing about her job, we then went to a lunch meeting that discussed how they could improve their product based on customer’s wants along every step of the development process.
After lunch, we then proceeded to talk to one of the developers named Linda. She showed us a lot of her job as an admin on a software called Jira, which connects workers together to streamline and simplify the development and testing of a product. She also showed us some of the tools she was using to learn the programming language Go. This is because SAS has decided to transition from Java to Go in order to conserve a lot more memory. At the end of the day, we met with a few college interns to talk about college and their work experience.
Interns at SAS