This award is for the employee who is inseparable from their cups of coffee rumor has it they worked as a Starbucks barista in college. The employee who has the most alive plants in their workspace? This person loves plants and gardening. Give them the Green Thumb Award. You all know a person in your team who talks more than anyone else. Give them the Chit Chat Award.
Are you in need of new hair, skin care, and makeup recommendations? Contact the office beautician. This person has all beauty tips, tricks, and info you need to glow up. This award goes to the employee who always packs a delicious looking lunch while everyone else goes to restaurants or Subway. This award is for the person that is always late for every meeting. This award goes out to the person who constantly uses any and every corporate acronym and buzzword.
There was that deadline that no one thought your team would be able to hit, but this person came through like a rock star and made it possible. Forgetting things is common. But there is always that extraordinary person in the office who believes everything is unforgettable!
The Elephant Memory Award is for that employee. Lots of employees lose themselves in their fantasies. There will usually be a colleague who always seems lost in a fantasy of their own. The Alice in Wonderland Award is for them. Or a new dress. Or a new shirt. This award goes out to a person who is the most observant.
The peace-makers are a very valuable resource. Every company needs them. Calmer of Storms ward is for the person who can quell any storm. Lots of people love to dress well to work. Some like to dress really really well. Dressed to Kill award goes out to the employee who lives to dress up. They should get a little appreciation. So give them some prizes that go with the early bird theme! You could work on the 10th floor or the 2nd. This award goes to someone who always takes the stairs.
I assume its ok to use some of your ideas!! Its funny. These are fantastic just one other When the budget is low, go after the low hanging fruit. So far, the universe is winning. It returns from an infinite loop just on 6 seconds! In Pascal, God is real. Unless you declare it as integer! In Pascal, all varables starting a to m are real by default. Just curious, which flavor are you talking about?
I encountered a few flavors of Pascal in my life, and none of them had the feature you mentioned. It sounds more like a Fortran feature in my ears.
One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The computer is master of the not-so-good programmers. Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live.
Martin Golding A good programmer is someone who always looks both ways before crossing a one-way street. Doug Linder. I pretty much love these two quotes. Prettty good Tipps. Ready, aim, aim, aim, aim: the slow approach to software development. The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.
I came across one not so long ago. Question: Why did the multithreaded chicken cross the road? Answer: other to side. To the get. Your email address will not be published. Pankaj I love Open Source technologies and writing about my experience about them is my passion.
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They also participated in the annual national intern sales challenge, where they competed against their colleagues from Honolulu to Boston. The finalists had an opportunity to present their project to CEO Pat Gallagher, topping off a summer filled great career development opportunities.
General Mills. In addition to gaining real-world experience, interns were able to forge meaningful connections with senior leaders through virtual networking events and a leadership speaker series. Interested in joining them next summer? General Motors. While welcoming more than interns online this summer, GM wanted to make sure students felt as included in company culture as if they were in the physical office.
In order to achieve this, GM increased touchpoints with students by making sure to check in every two weeks to get personal updates from every student. They used GM TV to immerse students with real time company updates via blog, video and live broadcasts. Their campus team also hosted a virtual event, EXECELerate, specifically for interns during their annual development summit.
GM interns this summer left with not only the experience of their roles, but a strong sense of the company culture.
From vaccines to toothpaste, this global healthcare company has a hand in almost every aspect of the health industry. This gave summer interns the opportunity to work across a variety of brands and projects—from helping devise marketing strategies to help people quit smoking with Nicorette, to developing a digital education program for digestive health with TUMS, to developing a new advocacy program for Flonase.
Despite their diverse experiences across different brands, interns say that their experiences all had a common thread: the ability to truly own a project, to be deeply immersed in brand marketing, and a supportive company culture, from managers to executives. Beyond the professional focus of their internship, interns also had the chance to form close bonds, participating in fun activities like virtual trivia and game nights. This summer HP onboarded over interns on its very first virtual internship program.
With this in mind, the team made sure professional development and networking were top priority in the internship program. By making strong open communication a key component to their virtual internship strategy, HP helped students make strong and lasting connections throughout the company.
IMC Trading. So IMC, a Chicago-based trading firm, wanted to ensure that their interns were still able to experience the city they would have called home that summer. On top of getting to experience local life, interns had a fulfilling summer filled with professional development.
In addition to their work, interns were matched with mentors, attended chat series with senior employees to discuss their experiences, and had access to organized networking opportunities. But, despite the mileage, they found a way to make their interns feel connected. Interns also participated in weekly virtual team meetings with coworkers scattered across different offices, an experience that an in-person internship based in a single office would not have provided, as well as Zoom happy hours, games, and cooking classes.
When organizing this new virtual experience, it was important to the team to design an experience that really captured the full LifeAtKohls experience. Alongside these more professional activities, the team made sure to also add in some fun ones like virtual yoga sessions and zoom trivia nights. Lincoln Financial Group.
Lincoln interns agree that what made their virtual experience special this summer was the people. Beyond the Executive Speaker Series, where leaders talked about their career paths and how to be successful in the workplace, mentors worked on a daily basis to help interns develop in their careers. For example, one manager scheduled time each day to help his intern learn insurance-based software, others were more than willing to schedule virtual chats with interns to talk about their career experience, regardless of their department.
Lincoln also had a job shadowing program for students to learn about different roles within the company by virtually following an employee in their duties. Overall, interns found their colleagues, from their fellow interns to executives, transparent, accessible, and willing to go out of their way to help them grow. You might know cybersecurity corporation McAfee from those alerts that pop up on your computer warning you of hackers — but interns know it as an incredible place to work.
Rather than give interns grunt work, McAfee treated them like full-fledged members of the team — allowing them not only to make significant impacts on projects, but take the lead. Interns praise the work environment as supportive and inclusive, and shared that the company genuinely invested in their growth with things like regular constructive feedback, workshops, and seminars.
The company also went above and beyond to make the interns feel like part of the family, with activities like coffee with CEO Peter Leav, a virtual escape room, and happy hours and picnics over Microsoft Teams.
Merchants Bonding Company. The Iowa-based insurance company welcomed an intimate class of four virtual interns across three different departments: information technology, commercial surety, and claims and compliance. Through panel discussions with recently-hired Merchant employees, interns learned how to manage their time, negotiate salaries, and understand benefits packages. For a pharmaceutical company focused on lab work, transitioning most of its interns to a remote environment is no easy task.
Yet, Merck managed to exceed expectations. Rather than running reactions in the lab, engineering and science students created their own podcasts and public information videos , and worked on Blockchain technology. To help students stay connected across departments, the company implemented an intern speaker series as well as one-on-one networking opportunities.
Their team even made sure to set up an AMA ask me anything approach with incoming students to make sure everyone knew what to expect before the start of the program. National Grid. This summer National Grid, virtually welcomed interns.
The Campus to Career team mailed each student a laptop and a National Grid t-shirt to properly equip them for the work ahead. As well as work virtually hands-on with managers on projects, this year interns were given the opportunity to support their local communities through the new Gridterns Give Back program. This program allowed interns to have a meaningful experience helping others struggling during COVID NBC Universal.
Out of the companies on this list, perhaps only NBC can claim that it made its interns famous—to celebrate national intern day, interns were featured on the Today Show. NVIDIA hosted more than students from over universities around the world in their first virtual internship program. To make the experience as special as possible, NVIDIA offered fun team bonding experiences like virtual games shows, cook-along events, book clubs and more.
These project topics ranged from display technology to computer vision to machine learning and more. While it made many of the same efforts as other companies on this list, such as virtual game nights and a Lunch and Learn series, what set it apart was the meaningful relationships it fostered between interns and executives.
Palo Alto Networks. Additionally, the interns were given hands-on learning opportunities throughout the summer both in practical tech skills such as machine learning and Python , as well as development through structured workshops on topics covering everything from building a personal brand to social engineering.
While most companies have recruiters and human resources departments to oversee summer internship programs, Paypal has an entire University Experience team devoted to making sure that interns make the most of their week program. Instead of entirely cancelling their packed calendar of in-person social and networking events, the University Experience organizers worked to create the same experience virtually, with seminars from top executives including one-on-one conversations with CTO Sri Shivananda , and an online intern conference where students were able to connect with one another and share their final projects with the entire company.
This summer, PepsiCo interns across departments put their skills together to work on projects with the potential for long-lasting change in the company. At the start of the six-week program, students were tasked with an Intern Challenge competition where teams worked on projects based around different themes relevant to the times, from driving sales during COVID to how to work more effectively at home , which they later presented to executive leadership.
Raytheon believes that a strong internship program will result in a high intern retention rate. The defense company provides an early career start for some students, with recent high school graduates given the opportunity to try their hand at problem solving with Raytheon teams. Many of these students return summer after summer, applying the technical skills they learned at school to real-world problems. Interns this year were also able to take advantage of the virtual program and attend events hosted by company leaders such as CEO Greg Hayes.
As this intern season wraps, Raytheon can expect to welcome returning students for years to come as the program truly invests in student growth and challenges interns to utilize the skills they learn in school.
RetailMeNot was able to quickly pivot to a virtual-only program while providing an intimate experience for interns. In addition to casual get-togethers, RetailMeNot upped the frequency of more organized team-building events, such as an office olympics and murder-mystery games. During speaker events with leadership, interns were highly encouraged to ask questions and to give their opinions on complicated topics.
Students contributed to real projects such as migrating existing fraud detection rules, designing a recurring deposits model, and creating a load detection library to help prevent any degraded user experience. Besides these very cool projects, Robinhood also made sure to offer interns the opportunity to be immersed in company culture by hosting fun events like virtual scavenger hunts, virtual escape rooms, and online cooking sessions.
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