DevBots, squirrels and bouncing emails — just another intern’s summer
Over the last three months, I have had the wonderful opportunity to join FreeAgent’s Workflow team as an Engineering Intern. As the internship draws to an all-too-soon close, I’ll look back at some of the things I’ve been able to participate in this summer. Getting going When I entered the office on the first Monday morning, I was introduced to the other members of Workflow, where we were promptly whisked… Continue reading
Summer in the city: my data science internship at FreeAgent
During a wet and windy January afternoon, I was indulging in fantasies about summer, hot weather and holidays. Pulling me back to reality was the realisation that I’m not some jet-setting socialite but a university student lacking in work experience and fast approaching the end of their academic career! I only had one year before I’d be forced to crawl from under the comfort blanket that is student loans, friendly… Continue reading
Castles, canals and coffee: my first week as a FreeAgent data science intern
My regular job is as a PhD student specialising in veterinary biology but this summer I have an amazing opportunity to be a data science intern at FreeAgent. If you are wondering why a biologist came to work at an accountancy software company, this is because of the particular branch of biology that I study: ‘epidemiology’. An epidemiologist typically uses data to understand ‘the distribution and determinants of health-related states… Continue reading
Programming, Burgers, and Treasure: Summer with FreeAgent
This summer it has been my pleasure to join FreeAgent as a Data Engineering intern. Alongside the analytics and architecture teams, I have been working on a new exciting feature to complement the FreeAgent application. Programming mostly with Python, I have learned a great deal from my colleagues, and I wish to share the experience with you all here on the engineering blog. Since joining in early June, the intern… Continue reading
Being a data science intern
Fiona Christie joined us here at FreeAgent on a 3-month internship with our Data Science team this summer after completing an undergraduate degree in Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Glasgow. She impressed us so much that we offered her a full-time role and we even managed to persuade her to write this post about her experience as an intern. Condensing my time at FreeAgent into one post hasn’t… Continue reading
My Summmer Internship at FreeAgent, 2013
This summer I left the silver city to work for FreeAgent, makers of online accounting software in Edinburgh. I was working with one other intern and our first project was to add Stripe integration for paying invoices. There was already a structure for other payment processors so this was easy - just copy the pattern and we’re done! ...Or not. After years of minimal feedback, someone was looking at my… Continue reading
Summer Internships in Engineering – apply for the Class of 2013
For the past three years we have invited interns to join our Edinburgh-based Engineering team for the summer months between June and September. Today we're officially opening the doors to the Class of 2013! Last year's interns developed one of FreeAgent's most requested features, the Online Payment Portal, so you'll get to work on an exciting project, not mundane work. If you're a keen hacker and a CompSci (or similar)… Continue reading
Engineering Summer Interns
Every summer we invite at least one intern to join our Edinburgh-based Engineering team for three months between June and September and today we're officially opening the doors to the Class of 2012! If you're a CompSci student at a UK university and you want to do something amazing this summer, please get in touch! Find out all the details on our Jobs Page. Continue reading
Tales of a FreeAgent Summer Intern, 2011
Hi all! I’m one of this year’s summer engineering interns at FreeAgent and I would like to introduce myself, give you an overview of what it’s like working for FreeAgent, and finally share a few of my work experiences with you. First though, a little about myself: I’m a 4th year student at the University of Edinburgh, studying Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence. My main interests include rock-climbing, snowboarding, and… Continue reading