Working at Endeca: I Dig It

posted by pope on July 7, 2008 at 4:57 pm

After passing through my first week of co-op fairly well (I'd say), I finally have some idea of what I'm actually doing here at Endeca. I'm in the Applications group of IT, meaning I work on the software that helps people get work done here. In some cases, I'll be working on the wiki used in the company's intranet, and in others I'll even be writing my own scripts or apps that people can use to do whatever it is they do for Endeca. Eventually, at the end of the month, I'll be having the new hire training and learn about the Endeca product, and all of its "knowledge management" powers.

In general, this place is great. The people are ridiculously friendly and helpful, and it seems like everyone loves the job they do, which is not exactly a common thing to find out in the "real world." All the free snacks and drinks don't hurt either. I've made it a personal mission to try every item in the free coffee machine just because I have to know what they taste like.

While I'm still in the "what the hell is going on right now?" stage of my learning process here, I've got a project, small as it is, that I am already working on (something along the lines of automating a very time-consuming and unpleasant task involving 1700 rows of data in Excel), and I'm starting to get somewhere with it. It's not a very tasking project, and shouldn't take very long at all, but it's a great way to get into how work gets done around here and how everything is set up.

All in all, this is a great work environment, and I know that I am going to learn a lot about both working in the professional world and about programming and IT in general. Endeca is a winner.

            
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