Rohan Bharadwaj
After I confirmed my internship with Quicken, a lot of my conversations with my friends went a little something like this:
Friend: “Hey where are you working this summer?”
Me: “I’m working for Quicken, this company in Menlo Park.”
Friend: “Wait Quicken Loans?”
Me: “No...just Quicken.”
Quicken is an interesting company. It was founded in 2016 but the software has been around since 1982. In a... Continue reading
Quinn Knoblock
These past few months I have been fortunate enough to spend my summer interning at Quicken. The experience has exceeded any preconceived expectations I entered with. I have learned so much, both in the context of a marketing intern, but also about working in a professional setting. As I reflect back on my past few months here, I am able to look at my experience more broadly, and my most... Continue reading
Pranav Kumar
Development Operations Intern
My name is Pranav Kumar, I am a development operations intern at Quicken for the summer of 2019. I’m a rising senior at UC Irvine studying Computer Science. I have been working on deploying, monitoring and maintaining servers in the cloud that are used to host the Quicken web services more efficiently.
I have done a lot of “low-level” (in computer science low-level... Continue reading
Mike Landolfi
My name is Mike Landolfi and I study Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, NY. This was my second summer interning at Quicken and loved it just as much as the first time. Although I attend school in New York, I’m originally from Menlo Park and enjoyed the luxury of living at home during my summers at Quicken. I also got to experience what it is like to with a team... Continue reading
Matt Aiu
For the past few months I have had the pleasure of working as a product manager intern for Quicken. This internship has taught me the importance of communication, fun, and what it really means to be in a working environment. Everyone’s first day at work is usually a nerve racking, awkward, and sobering event. I was a nervous rising junior at Willamette University who was studying creative... Continue reading
Tryone Ko
Ready, set...START!
Hello! My name is Tyrone Ko and I am a graduate at California State University East Bay, (Spring 2019) interning for the User Experience Design Team.
One of the biggest things that I have learned so far during my tenure at Quicken is patience. I had to understand that designing a product is a marathon, not a sprint, and through the iterative process of design, I was forced to... Continue reading
Julian Liao
Is this the right place? Am I late? Is my attire formal and appropriate enough? Are the employees friendly? Will the other interns accept me? What is my mentor like? Will I be able to complete my tasks?
A large influx of questions rushed through my head as I walked through the doors on the first day. Almost instantly, I was greeted by the Program Manager giving a tour to the group of interns... Continue reading
Drey Gerger
Catching the Bug
My name is Drey Gerger. I’m a rising senior studying Computer Science at UC Berkeley. I’ve spent my summer working as the Quicken Cloud Services (QCS) intern. To briefly describe what I do here, I use various tools to deploy backend services that support customer-facing applications.
A little bit about my journey: three years ago, I’d never written a line of code. Like most of... Continue reading
Chris Dillard
My name is Chris Dillard and I am a student at the University of Virginia. Working at Quicken was my first exposure to Silicon Valley, and my first time living on the West Coast. After a small culture shock, I quickly felt comfortable with the Bay Area, and had ample opportunity to explore and develop my interests.
From the start, I was amazed by Quicken’s culture of support and energy. Immense... Continue reading
Austin Villanueva
My name is Austin Villanueva, and I am an upcoming Junior at Arizona State University. Having lived in the Silicon Valley all my life, I thought I knew what to expect from working at a tech company However after working at Quicken I was pleasantly surprised in all the best ways to discover how different it was.
Coming from a competitive college environment, it was not only a refreshing change to... Continue reading