🎉 12 month work at Nasdaq

Sep 1, 2023·
Ashley Qianxi Gao
Ashley Qianxi Gao
· 1 min read

I’m incredibly grateful for the opportunity to work in the industry as a software engineer. This experience has provided me with invaluable hands-on learning that I wouldn’t have gained in school. I’d like to sincerely thank all of my colleagues for their support—it’s been a truly rewarding experience!

This was my first time working with a large-scale, industrial codebase. It took some time to get familiar with it, but after about a month, I started to understand how to approach the solutions. They said I learned it quick =v=! Some of the tickets were development tasks, focused on designing new features, which was incredibly rewarding when everything came together. Other tickets were bug fixes, and although they could sometimes feel endless and a bit frustrating, they were equally interesting. Debugging feels like solving a puzzle—you gather hidden clues from all over to pinpoint the source of the issue! I also had the chance to collaborate with people with other expertise from different teams (to collect those clues, haha!), which really helped me piece together the bigger picture.

team event

First Team Event! Axe Throwing!!


office olympics

Office Olympics in Puzzle, we got the bronze!! (from 4 teams ehehe)