Week 10. Post 1.

 What recommendations would you give to other students doing an internship?

I would one of the most important skills that I have learned in my internship are not even technical. Technical too, but mostly I would say it is soft skills such as communication. I worked in a relatively small team and 70-80% of my work heavily relied on communication. 

Before coming to this internship,  I have been always underestimating the power of communications. I always felt that as long as I have good technical skills - I am good to go. However, I realized that even for software engineers, communication in the team is a key. For example, if you working on devleoping a certain feature and your mentors gives you some instructions on how to implement it, in your head you might have a completely different vision and understanding. Thus, it is highly important to keep always communication your process of developing and how you are feeling about it. After I came to this internship, I was fascinated by how my mentors interact with each other - how clear their thoughts are always are, how concise and comprehensive their speech is etc. I realized that having good communication skills are not less important than your technical skills. 

Thus, I would highly recommend working on your communication skills, how to express your thoughts well, how to address your technical questions better, how to convert your technical mindset to non-technical when talking to managers etc. On my next internship, I will try to work on my communication skills harder by practicing some of the advice for good communication practices.