My Experience at SeamlessHR

My Experience at SeamlessHR

As a Backend Developer Intern

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Hi guys!! ๐Ÿ˜Š. I'm excited to finally write again. I know it's been a while since I published my last article, and of course, that can only mean my interest, dedication, and consistency in tech finally paid off as I got into a great tech company like SeamlessHR as a Backend intern. Yay!!! ๐Ÿ™Œ๐Ÿฝ.

Reading my article for the first time? Well, you are in for a treat and more than welcome to dive right into my internship sojourn as a backend developer. It is a fresh experience that I wish to reflect on and document as well as share with you. To share with you more about my experience, my challenges, and my motivation so far in the program.

Before my internship, I invested a lot of time and resources in self-learning but I could only go as far as I could. But at SeamlessHR, my learning experience has been better, faster, and seamlessly great working on projects and challenging tasks.

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My Best Part

It started with one of the best physical onboarding sessions I have ever had that lasted about a week to groom interns on the company's core values, culture, and businesses. I got to understand how operations work at a Business-to-business Software-as-a-Service(B2B SaaS) company. This gave me an eye-opener on how relationships with clients are managed and how everyone plays a key role in maintaining that relationship including us developers regardless of whether we communicate with the clients directly or indirectly. I also realized the importance of having the whole team, comprising developers, testers, and sales managers aligned to ensure the successful delivery of the project to our clients using our SeamlessHR products.

My Challenges

However, I had challenges when the learning phase of the internship began. All was not rosy and bloomy initially. You see like most other interns who learn more about the technology used in building the company's product during their internship, mine was quite different. I had to start from scratch unlearning and relearning as I came in with a JavaScript skillset while learning PHP and Laravel used in SeamlessHR, and I still vividly recall the very first coding task of my internship trying to set up the development environment locally to build a Rock-Paper-and-Scissors game via the console ๐Ÿ˜ฃ. To be very honest, I had not encountered more than half the tools used and was overwhelmed by the number of new terms I learned in that one day while being very intimidated and scared at the same time too ๐Ÿ˜ข.

My Strength, Motivation, and Achievements

Week after week, my confidence grew stronger and stronger as the tasks kept coming and going. Debugging and researching codes became part of my work ethic as a backend developer. Naturally, I have never been afraid to ask questions and have always been a team player. These qualities allowed me to relate blockers with my colleagues and instructors too who are always willing to share some of their precious time in guiding and unblocking me of my current blockers. Motivating me to greater heights in the process too. Working remotely from home has been another great source of boost in my learning, allowing me to save time-consuming commutes to complete more work tasks and assignments comfortably, and of course, I get to spend less money outside of the house ๐Ÿ˜‹. Throughout the internship program, I have grown professionally as a backend developer, improved my coding skills most especially in areas I am lacking, and learned a whole lot of new cool stuff like:

  • Working with helper functions

  • Working with Laravel Eloquent

  • Working with Traits

  • Reading and writing large amounts of data from and to Google sheet respectively

  • Building restful API with Laravel

  • Using the right naming convention in writing codes via our Backend Tribes Day ๐Ÿ‘Œ๐Ÿผ

  • Implementing the JWT authentication in Laravel 9 and using its middleware efficiently

  • Working with mail and mailable in Laravel

  • Testing and so much more...

My Feedback

To SeamlessHR, you guys have been beyond great, especially with your work culture, ethics and so much more I probably did not mention. I was more elated to have my very first MacBook laptop because of this internship program but then there is always room for improvement even though I cannot think of any right now ๐Ÿ˜.

My Special Appreciation

To my instructors Ayo Lana, Olanrewaju Sule-Balogun, and Judith Oiku I sincerely appreciate your remarkable efforts in ensuring that we become better backend developers.

To my new team members Okojie George, Seyifunmi Sobande, Arinze Umunnah, Okwy Onyeabor, Chinedu Ifediorah, and Michael Adeoye I appreciate all your constant efforts in making me a better developer via live projects, improving my soft skills, seeing me through my daily task challenges, and being a good team member to me.

And of course my fellow interns '22, I appreciate you guys too as we constantly motivate ourselves amid challenges, deadline modes, and unresolved bugs ๐Ÿ˜‚. I truly hope this is the beginning of something truly special in the years to come both at SeamlessHR and beyond.

Thanks for reading!!! ๐Ÿ™๐Ÿฝ

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