Typically, days were from 9 AM to 6 PM, but the team was pretty flexible as long as I got 8-9 hours in each day. Many days had meetings, such as simple daily standup calls, with full team meetings occurring every Friday. I was a fairly new programmer at the time and wasn’t very familiar with C, so I didn’t feel like I had much to contribute to most meetings.

Most of my time was spent updating and adding features to a Java interface they distributed internally to other EMC teams. The code bases were very large and didn’t conform to a lot of OOP standards, so it was a struggle to get things done.

Pros and Cons

The biggest advantages of working at EMC at the time were the proximity to my home and starting salary as a relatively inexperienced engineer. Despite the benefits, I left after about one year. The environment felt too corporate and stodgy, and being in my early 20s, I wanted to make an impact on the world in some way.

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