First day at Autodesk
As part of my degree, I have to complete a final internship and choose to do it at Autodesk. Today was my first day of “work”. Nothing like work really. All I did was sit in a conference room to get the basic training required and meet co-workers. For the first time, I got to see what a software-centric business was all about. In the past, I always worked in a context where software was only a support to a greater purpose. At Autodesk, software is an end. Of course, there is a greater purpose. Software built is used by clients, but as far as the internals go, everything is focused on software development.
How often can you get to sit in an intern welcome presentation and see non-software developers not feel at their place? Seriously, in most companies, software developers sit there knowing that nothing said really applies to them.
It’s good to see an environment with nightly builds, a testing crew and proper configuration management. I don’t know precisely what I will be working on at this time, but I will soon find out.