Lame!

For the past 3 months I was doing internship at Energy Management start-up in a place close to San Francisco. After working there I realized even if the job market is not good I don't want to work in that firm anyway.

The work was interesting and I did learn a lot from internship specially J2EE framework based web development but apart from work I have nothing good to say about the company.

It's such a small company ~70 employee but it's so secretive and politicized that one can't comprehend, every day in my group someone was cribbing that his/her work is not appreciated, don't tell this and that outside the group, why a person from outside group is in their social networking group WTF!!

One thing I have learnt from this internship is to figure out Important people who are actually useful in solving some problem in hand, just telling everyone your problem just end up making a mockery of oneself. Also, before joining make sure which group you would be working in, is your work important and related to them, like for myself I was software engineer but my team mates were environment consultants so there was nothing common, they just like iPad interface that's it, they are not much concerned with back-end stuff. One more thing to understand is how you fit in the team structure, in my case I can say I had worst possible structure where there was a functional mentor and a product manager, if functional mentor doesn't communicate with product manager about my progress then he has no idea and when I used to goto PM he used to tell me talk to your functional manager, you see how much things were fucked up and yes it was start up environment.

On day one try to figure out which Email list are important to you and get into it proactively than thinking your mentor will do it, may be he/she is busy in his/her work and you miss out group meeting or lunches coz of this.

I had some problems in using framework went to engineering department and hardly anyone helped except one lady who was also monitored by her manager and was asked to do her own work than helping me WTF again!! She used to come to my part of building to help me so that she is not under scanner by her group or manager, can you imagine how fucked up things were in a 70 employee company?? Neither I got any code sample to see how things work.

I was so happy when days were coming to end of internship. Thank god I am out! The best part of internship is that it's not only employer can see you as right fit or not but you can also judge company and co-workers as right fit for yourself or not.