Internship: Over
Posted by Jonathan Ng | Filed under Personal
In the blink of an eye, my internship at HSBC’s Office Automation Department has come to an end. I can still remember about 2 months into my internship, I would be thinking like: oh my God, how am I gonna live another 4 months here?? But surprisingly, I survived.
When internship period is over, there’s surely a burning question: “Would I return to HSBC?”. Heck, there are others who asked me the same question too. While my fried here has the answer pretty obvious:
Basically means: “Hell No!”
While all the other 3 trainees would agree that it’s damn stressful working at HSBC, I beg to differ. True, HSBC’s internship program is definitely one of the toughest, other than Eprotea. But, I have observed that that’s pretty much how working life is. Do tell me if there’s a decent paying job, with great career prospects, where I can stick strictly to official working hours only.
So would I return to HSBC? Frankly, it’s not one of the companies high on my list, and returning to my department is definitely a NO. It does office automation mainly, and sad to say, there’s very very little innovation or creative process involved. It’s about satisfying a user’s requirements, not pushing the user experience to better levels. Of course, the wide proliferation of overpriced IBM products there (Lotus Notes, which has a market share of only 12%) doesn’t make sense to me, and in fact is a repelling factor to me.
Bye HSBC, what a ride it has been..
One Response to “Internship: Over”
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Eric Says:
October 1st, 2007 at 6:54 pmSo bad …? Tough life for sucessful person and great man …
Anyway … Congratulation … Finish ur long intership … !
