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Diary of a Summer Intern - Europe Edition!
September 1, 2010
Jerrica and Atima have gone back to school but our internship season isn't over just yet! Meenakshi, another intern from our Wroclaw office, agreed to help us continue our summer series with another European edition of Diary of a Summer Intern. Take it away, Meenakshi...
Hi Everyone,
Quite some time has passed already since I started my internship here at Google Wroclaw in Poland. The first weeks were strongly focused on getting to know the environment, the work and the team. So this did not only relate to working hours but also spending time with Wrooglers - that’s how the Wroclaw Googlers call themselves - while the Soccer World Cup was still on. Unfortunately, the tournament is over but there are again new activities happening in this lovely Polish city - a film festival! :) Plus I have picked up my tennis racket again and enjoy the evenings playing against someone in the local Google League. You can see, it never gets boring! Plus everybody loves to go out and party - this week another few birthdays, next week a boating trip with the office - yay!
Enough about that though, or else you get the impression I don’t do any work here... and I sure do! I am starting to get deeper insights into how processes function here. Everything is very intertwined and the fact that everybody here is eager to contribute in one way or another yields many projects! I am immediately involved with those interconnections as I am working on identifying needs for internal support here - and in order to make such a recommendation I need to fully understand who can contribute what and in what way. The fascinating thing is, I am in touch with everyone here and my day-to-day work is quite the contrary of monotonous! I have the liberties of talking to everyone who I consider important, yet have the guidance of my mentor whenever I need help. I really appreciate this kind of attitude towards everyone in the organization. No matter how long you have been with Google, you always have the right to speak up and you are encouraged to think for yourself!
As a member of the Global Advertiser Operations DACH team - the team responsible working with German (D), Austrian (A) and Swiss (CH) AdWords clients - I am also reviewing ads. Hence, I need to check if the advertiser complies with Google’s advertising policies. It’s great to see the effects of a learning curve here! :) It took me quite a bit to figure out what and where to look when working with ad approvals, but routine started to kick in and its a great feeling to be faster, approve more ads in less time...
... Enough for now, I have a meeting with my fellow interns coming up as we want to organize something fun for our office at one of the upcoming TGIFs (Thank Google It’s Friday (Parties)). You see, work @ Google is more than just WORK! :)
Post by Meenakshi - Google Summer Intern in Wroclaw, Poland
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