Pros: Training is so helpful, and I gained a lot of knowledge in CS and finance. The pay is okay for a first job.

Cons: Old technologies and many old guys. Have to debug Fortran, even Pascal code sometimes. You will not be able to keep competitive if working in such a company.

Pros: - Great people, very chill environment. - Good work/life balance. - Good evening finance classes. - Free museum passes. - Free snacks and Friday ice creams.

Cons: - Boring work, not challenging at all - Slow personal/professional growth - Technology is way behind

Pros: I worked for the BDE (Basic Development Environment) team, and thus understand that my experience is not completely the norm. My team was composed of mostly subject matter experts from the C++ Standards community: John Lakos (who has more degrees than Sheldon Cooper), Alisdar Merrideth (the lead of the C++ Standards Committee library team), etc. They were all very personable and very knowledgeable. I was given a real project which I owned completely and was made to feel like I was a real member of the team, not just the intern. I also was given carte blanche to work as many hours as I desired (as an intern I was paid hourly), so that was really great as well. The HR/Campus recruiting did a great job setting up events and making a really great internship experience. In fact, they still take me out to dinner each time they come into town.

Cons: Working for John's team means a lot of time is spent on tasks that are not necessarily programming. I.E., writing documentation, and all of the sections of a BDE component that are really comments (at least from a programmer's standpoint). You get used to it, and once you learn what is expected from these sections, it is supposed to be less than 30% of your time. However, for a ten-week internship, by the time I got the hang of it, my time was over. Another point is that you test your own code (again, this is true for my team, not for many others). This is not necessarily a negative, but it again is work that some Software Engineers would prefer not be a part of their duties.