Internship experience at Alibaba - Anonymous employee Alibaba Group Employee Review

4.0
Nov 7, 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

The internship at Alibaba as a software engineer is my first internship experience. Pros are: 1). Standard development process; 2). Large volume of users; 3). State-of-art Java technologies.

Cons

1). Common issues in large Internet companies; 2). Less mentorship to interns; 3). Food is bad.

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Cons

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