Author: shonb897

Today is our last day at SAS, but unfortunately, Ms. Holland was feeling a bit under the weather so she couldn’t make it. Instead, we were introduced to a manager in the same building named Craig. Craig has been with SAS for a very long time. We talked to him in great depth about how he got to SAS, and it was quite an interesting story. We discussed many things, from how a team is managed to how a product is developed. We spent the first 2 hours of the day with him, but at noon Ryan and I had to get to bulding A. When we got there, we met our entire team from Cary Academy in a meeting room. We got our last lunch at SAS, and we went back up to the same meeting room. We started our presentations of the projects which we had started last week. Teo, David, and I were the first to present, and the presentation went well. The rest of the groups went after us, and they all did well too. Overall, I feel that my work experience at SAS was a great experience because it provided me with the perfect exposure to the corporate world, and I will definitely miss all the people I got a chance to get close with there.

 

Today we met with a few more people in the developement department. First we met with Jerry to learn about developement on a different product, and he talked to us about what goes into developing a product. We also met with Max, a developer on the algorithmic and theoretic part of the product, which analyzes the data. Max talked to us about what he does and how. We also discussed colleges. Afterwards, we went to eat lunch in building A and we ran into Mrs. Jones from Cary Academy! After lunch, Paige took me and Ryan to go see Dr. Goodnight’s amazing gemstone collection. He has over 400 rare gemstones on display from all over the world. Unfortunately, tomorrow would be our last day in SAS’s technical field. We learned a lot, and headed home for the day.