My Internship Experience at Crowe LLP
Just like footprints in the sand, each step signifies the journey taken.
The previous year, I started working as a data services intern at Crowe Horwath IT Services LLP. I will share my experience of this internship — company culture, what it was like to work from home, in office meetings, the project, and the technologies I was working on through this blog.
Work from home
The internship is fully remote, adopting the new work-from-home policy. I was habitual to Teams meetings and pair programming by now as we had already spent two years of college doing Zoom meetings. During the internship, I did my work from various locations without facing any problems. I extremely loved the concept of flexible hours as I was able to give time to my personal work.
Even though I didn’t engage with my mentor or manager in person frequently, I was still capable of connecting with them regularly and efficiently. I also had enough opportunities to network with other interns.
Sincerely speaking, I loved having a home office and residing with my family. I was able to save money, spend quality time with my loved ones and local friends, and work all day at something I enjoyed. I was missing out on a couple of aspects of the in-office experience, though, like informal interactions with other interns and the development of genuine connections, as well as the excellent office cuisine that my coworkers had always spoken about.
FS Consulting Roadshow and Team Event
Cowe organized the FS roadshow in the month of February. The purpose of the event is to review our FS strategy for winning in the market and growing our practice, collaborate as a team to gain ideas/thoughts, conduct sessions to address the popular topics that we provided in the surveys, and come together as a team to connect with each other via fun team exercises and a social event. The event was for everyone in Consulting-FS and those people in Product/Data Engineering people who primarily work with Solti irons and/or clients driven by our FS Consulting team.
This was the time when the whole data services team met each other and had a great time.
The Work
I was assigned a project On Financial Service ETL Tool.
The project’s purpose is to:-
·Create an environment that allows ideas to be transformed into applications and deployed rapidly on the portal (within 30 days)
·Build out a common set of services and components that enables rapid and cost-effective development of next-generation FS applications
·Generate new ways to monetize aggregated data that Crowe already owns and has access to
·Provide all necessary artifacts so any development team could take a use case and develop an application on the FS Platform.
Key Performance Area/ Key Job Activities:-
1. Undertaking data collection
2. Preprocessing data
3. Analyze data
4. Building models to address business problems.
5. Presenting information using data visualization techniques.
6. Conducting research and giving presentations.
7. Introductory week of training on Microsoft Azure and Power BI.
8. Assigned with a small part of the project.
9. Provide help in developing custom data models and algorithms to apply to datasets.
Fileconverter:
- It is a part of the data acquisition framework project.
2. Its purpose is to validate data using azure databricks according to the given JSON rule.
3. In this validation, we are doing datatype validation, and required/ non-required validation on columns.
4. After this validation we put the final output file in a datalake.
5. This file is further used by the ETL process to generate final output data in the data warehouse(snowflake).
6. After this validation we prepare the file for the ETL process.
Key Learnings
I had a steep process of learning at the start of the internship, just as in any new position. I watched Crowe Training courses, participated in internal boot camps, and had in-depth conversations with my mentor on how to best position myself for success. However, even during the investigation and design phase of my project, I found it a little difficult to get oriented with the team, the project, and the business.
This internship has been a great learning experience, adding significant value to my skill set. Not only I gained technical skills in SQL, python, data visualization, and Azure but also enhanced my organizational, interpersonal, and presentation skills.
Company Culture
You will be a member of the Crowe team starting on the day you begin. Everyone in this room is dedicated to preserving a culture in which we exchange ideas, encourage one another, and recognize our accomplishments. Crowe is recognized as one of the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For.
Throughout the course of my internship, everyone I encountered was incredibly warm and engaging. I do believe that I have forged relationships with other interns and full-time employees that I want to maintain and develop in the future, even though it was more challenging to do so in a distant setting. The fact that work-life balance is indeed a top goal for the entire organization is yet another aspect of the business culture that I adore.
Conclusion
I accepted the internship offer last summer and couldn’t have been happier to be a part of such a fantastic organization. I’ve been in love with the company’s objective to connect professionals as well as the company culture ever since my initial interviews. Throughout my internship, as I maintain in touch with my team, recruiters, and other programs interns, these objectives kept being exceeded.
Thanks for reading!