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Better Know an Intern: Aayush Upadhyay
August 6, 2013
It’s intern season at Google! Interns are located at offices all across the globe, and represent a broad diversity of backgrounds, concentrations and interests. So inspired by Stephen Colbert’s
Better Know a District
, we’re bringing to you “Better Know an Intern!” The series will introduce you to our interns across the globe, and will get you the scoop on the impactful projects they work on, their interests and passions, and what it’s really like to intern at Google straight from the source.
For our second post, meet Aayush Upadhyay, an Associate Product Manager (APM) intern in Mountain View, CA.
Over the course of 12-weeks, Aayush Upadhyay has worked with Google’s search team. As an APM intern, Aayush’s role is relatively undefined, therefore he has some flexibility on how he approaches his work. “No one really hands you the steps for how to reach your goal, which is to ultimately launch a product. Being open to approaching people to ask questions has served me very well here.”
Because of the work he is doing, Aayush has gotten the opportunity to speak with many engineers and user interaction designers. “One of my summer goals was to meet interesting Googlers. They’re so nice and very receptive to reaching out to others. They had a lot of good advice and they were always friendly and open.”
Throughout his internship, Aayush says that collaborating with people across teams has been beneficial for him. “It’s been really cool to finally understand the system architecture that I’ve been working with, what is actually happening behind the scenes, and then seeing how all the pieces fit together.”
Aayush enjoys “slacklining” (walking across a line of rope tied between 2 trees) with his other intern friends in his spare time. Upon his return to Yale University, this rising senior wants to continue hosting hackathons and participating in intramural sports. Aayush has also volunteered as a counselor at a local university summer program that brings neighborhood children together through learning and fun activities.
Aayush says this about what he has learned this summer: “At Google I’ve learned that you can be a very good person and still be at the top. It’s so refreshing because here, people are committed to what they’re doing and they’re still a blast to work with.”
Posted by Shelbey Roberts, University Programs team
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