Google

They gave me an OKR that was actually mine, not a shadow project. Ran 3 user interviews without a PM sitting in the room, then presented to a director who pushed back hard on my sample size — stressful but real. Still talk to two people from the intern class.

Researcher on my pod turned around a 5-user study in two days when my first layout tested poorly — saved the project. Search results UI is boring until you realize half the planet sees it.

My host got a small routing fix into prod in week 7 and I helped with the last mile of it — first time something I touched actually shipped. Cafeteria is legit, and I was usually out by 6 which surprised me given the rep. Fall cohort was smaller than summer so you actually know the other interns.