{"id":606,"date":"2015-06-15T19:43:18","date_gmt":"2015-06-15T19:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/summerinternships\/?p=606"},"modified":"2015-06-15T19:43:18","modified_gmt":"2015-06-15T19:43:18","slug":"austin-ellingwood-18-programming-and-customer-success-with-startup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/summerinternships\/2015\/06\/15\/austin-ellingwood-18-programming-and-customer-success-with-startup\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin Ellingwood &#8217;18  Programming and Customer Success with Startup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This summer, I was given the opportunity to work for a startup company called Handshake, in Palo Alto, California. The house I am staying in is a multi-million dollar mansion, with guys from various <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/summerinternships\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2015\/06\/Ellingwood1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" alt=\"Ellingwood1\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/summerinternships\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2015\/06\/Ellingwood1-224x300.jpg\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>schools in Michigan. The two other interns are a couple of all around good guys from Wake Forest. \u00a0I have been helping with the Customer Success team, which involves helping out customers in a support role, testing out bugs, and aiding every team member in any way I can. I am learning new programming languages every day, so that by the end of the summer, I will be fixing bugs in the code. Until then, I will aid the Customer Success team in their day-to-day tasks. I have learned a great deal about small businesses in my short time here, and I am eager to learn more.<\/p>\n<p>The life of a startup is a busy one. With less than 30 employees, and many schools trying to get on board with Handshake, there is little time for breaks. I spend most of my days in either the office, or various coffee shops around Palo Alto. I am enjoying the busy days full of work and full of pressure to get things done on time and with great quality.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-607 alignleft\" alt=\"Ellingwood2\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/summerinternships\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2015\/06\/Ellingwood2-224x300.gif\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One of my favorite parts about working for Handshake is the environment that I get to work in. Every employee is very supportive, and any criticism I receive is constructive. I enjoy working for Handshake because they appreciate all the work I do, which I think is partly due to the fact that it is a startup. I interact with the CEO on a daily basis, by either IM, or face-to-face, which is very unique to small businesses. I am excited for the future of Handshake.\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/summerinternships\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2015\/06\/Ellingwood1.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This summer, I was given the opportunity to work for a startup company called Handshake, in Palo Alto, California. The house I am staying in is a multi-million dollar mansion, with guys [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-small-business-internship-fund-sbif"],"w_featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/summerinternships\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2015\/06\/Ellingwood2.gif","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/summerinternships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/summerinternships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/summerinternships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/summerinternships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/summerinternships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/summerinternships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":609,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/summerinternships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions\/609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/summerinternships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/summerinternships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/summerinternships\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}