It’s been a month since I came to the land of opportunities: the United States. It has been a fabulous journey so far and I’m loving it. Back home in India, I had two choices: either take a job at Dassault Systems as an R&D Associate Development Engineer or get my Masters in Applied Data… Read the full article…
Globally in 2015, private organizations spent $84 billion on cybersecurity, an amount that has an estimate of $125 billion in 2020. Some researchers estimate that by 2030 that number could be as high as $90 trillion. This begs the question: how will governments react to the growing number and variety of cybersecurity threats? Threats may… Read the full article…
When my internship with Wayfair began, I was apprehensive about how well I would fit into a professional work environment and learn all the required technical skills to excel at work. This was primarily due to this being by first such venture in the United States. I was skeptical about how am I expected to… Read the full article…
During my internship at Wayfair, I gained a completely different perspective on the functionalities within an organization. I learnt about personalizing recommendations for customers who view your websites, keeping in mind their likes and dislikes and a myriad of other factors such as age, gender and demographics. I have always enjoyed shopping online, but the… Read the full article…
My job as a Software Development Engineer at Amazon certainly comes with many challenges along the way. This only makes celebrating successes so much more significant. One of the most exhilarating experiences I can think of on the job is finally unblocking yourself after long hours of working on a bug. It makes me proud… Read the full article…
When we think about innovation, competition, and consumer protection we need to understand that there is no perfect solution. There might be situations where innovation is best achieved by a few large entities. Alternatively a large number of smaller competitors may provide options to consumers. In the past, deciding on this was not as difficult… Read the full article…
Summer 2018 brought new challenges and exciting opportunities with it. As my second semester of graduate school drew to a close, I decided to pursue a ten-week internship at Wayfair’s Boston office. Facing Learning Curves My internship kicked off with a project on building an application using React, PhP, and other web development frameworks. Since… Read the full article…
Are you still trying to catch up on all the emails you’ve ignored since January 1? If you’re worried you may have missed some of our best posts: we have your back. Here are the top 5 InfoSpace posts we’ve published so far this year. Did your favorite blog make the list? If not, let… Read the full article…
I came to Boston a week before the internship began because I wanted to acclimate myself to the locality and explore the new city. Boston is amazing during the summers and I had already tried a couple of restaurants and set up my house before I started my internship. My First Day at Wayfair Typical… Read the full article…
Amazon has been quite a wild time. Throughout the first month of my internship, I’ve been exposed to many new people, ideas, and technologies. The way of life in Seattle is unlike anything I’ve seen before. Who knew that going on the iSchool’s Experiential Learning trip, Peak2Peak, last summer would be a precursor for the events… Read the full article…