As an
Intern , My experience at NetApp started with the recruitment process. As
this is my (and for most other interns) first job ,it would mean a lot more
than just a job . The college-student-fears would give us a lot of doubts and
expectations. Fortunately , here at the very first day during recruitment, it
was all gone and answered by the environment itself . The first few hours I
walked around the place with people walking around seeming happy to work here.
That’s all I needed to get me started to transform from a student to an
employee.
On the first day as an Intern , the orientation as we can call it , was very
well organized and had the HR team helping us through the on-boarding
process with so much patience and a warm smile .
As Interns , we were assured we were going to have a really good learning
experience and to compliment it , it would also going to be super fun .
Not
for one day I felt NetApp let me down with my expectations .
NetApp
is concerned for our everyday needs and it provides us facilities at standards
which would spoils us for choice.
I would
specially like to mention about NetApp university . It definitely stands true
to its name. I took up 3 courses .
1.
Campus-to-Corporate
: One experience which makes my transition from student-to-employee more
easier and disciplined.
2.
Perl Programming 1 :
An online tutorial , well planned and truly informative .
3.
Perl Programming 2 :
It was a 3 day class. The hands-on experience made learning faster and more fun
What
really matters to have a good time is what u deal with every day. And every day
I work with a team so motivated which is definitely infectious . My team has
been so supportive . They don’t make us feel amateur at all. They include us in
every discussion and make us look involved . They do not hesitate for a minute
to clear our silliest of doubts . How the day passes by , we hardly notice . It
is definitely so involving .
Talking
about the fun we have , our HR team organized an Intern outing at Bluemoon
Retreat Resort recently. The Day was well spent , NetApp style !! Our day
of fun started as soon as we all boarded the bus. It was a day with no flaw but
super fun. The games we played, the adventure sports and more importantly we
got to see each other outside office and I feel I know a lot of my co-interns
much better than I earlier did. The outing definitely served the purpose . It
was a riot of fun for me !!
And
Beer Bash , If I don’t mention this, My testimony would be incomplete. As the
name suggests, Bash it is definitely . Why would anybody (note: even for non-alcoholics)
spend Friday evenings at office if it wasn’t fun??
I could
go on and on about my everyday life here and it would still have lots of things
unsaid. I would say , I couldn’t have started my career in a better fashion . I
would always be grateful . NetApp truly stands dear to all us interns and we
would cherish it .
