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Cool Projects, Onboarding Chaos

Software Engineer Intern
Former Employee
Worked at American Express for 1 year
September 29, 2016
Phoenix, Arizona
3.0
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Pros

Lots of different teams and cool projects that employees can work on. Supposedly, as a full-time employee, it is very easy to move from position to position to find what you like to work on.

Cons

Contractors, contractors everywhere. Almost everyone on my team of ~12 were contractors brought in from overseas and had been there for less than 6 months, which made it difficult to learn from them because they were still learning themselves.

When I showed up on the first day, my team had no idea why I was there, and it took over a week to even get my work machine set up, which was very annoying.

Advice to Management

Prepare better for interns and make sure the teams know to help welcome us, because I didn't feel welcome.

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