So I'm currently taking an internship where I am part of the Local Developer Experience team where I will support the developers by making things autonomous, I know this role doesn't do much programming from what I was told the amount of programming is 1%. I only took this internship to at least get my foot in the door of the Computer Science field, because I was previously a computer repair tech. So my question is I do enjoy programming, did I make a mistake with this internship? If not does it have any value if I apply for a software engineering internship or job?
#Is a Devops Local Developer Experience internship valuable for a possible SWE job?
zinc forum
spring garden
how will you make things autonomous
zinc forum
how will you make things autonomous
Taht's what they said it was, but what they do is make it so that the devs can install their scripts from the Github with a command line instead of installing everythign one by one
sage dome
So... You're building the program that developers run to pull scripts? That still sounds like programming
zinc forum
did you have other choices?
Nope
zinc forum
So... You're building the program that developers run to pull scripts? That stil...
But I’m not really programming it’s just mostly copy and paste from the GitHub which is what they told me
spring garden
Nope
its better than nothing for sure, maybe you can transition to the dev side after a while
sage dome
If it's actually copying and pasting scripts then it has no place in an engineering org, and the entire team should be replaced by a small piece of software
But speaking to more generalities, devex is easy enough to transition into other swe roles - you're still building applications, just internal ones. If you do take this, I would a) try to avoid copy+paste work and b) not frame it as "devops" in talking about it to other companies, because that can often be more ops-focused
zinc forum
But speaking to more generalities, devex is easy enough to transition into other...
Forgot to respond. So there is a chance that I can turn this into a possible opportunity to get an SWE job? And I was thinking that if I take this one and they ask me if I would like to work with them I might accept and ask if there would be a chance I can move to a programming role.
zinc forum
If it's actually copying and pasting scripts then it has no place in an engineer...
And it's copying and pasting like they told me and editing their Github page so if something isn't working we fix it by changing some code in it