Benchling hosted several interns across the Engineering and Design teams this summer. They were embedded into different teams working directly alongside our full-time engineers, designers, and product managers. We’re excited to highlight the contributions of three of them, and talk about what their experience was like! Meet our interns!

This is an adaptation of a post written by Swathi, one of our Engineering Managers, where she shares her personal framework for thinking about career development. Many times over the past decade, I have struggled with knowing what strategy I needed to deploy in my career. To be honest, sometimes…

Things to consider before transitioning from Individual Contributor (IC) to Engineering Management “Welcome to the dark side!” That was the welcome message when I joined my first managers’ staff meeting with my organization. An odd way of welcoming someone to a new EM role, isn’t it? I used to wonder…

Optimize your path to success — If you know your long term goal, do you have a roadmap (complete with checkpoints and milestones) to achieve it? Knowing where you are in life and understanding where you are in your career, do you know what next steps to follow? …

A non-prescriptive way to think about your career The job market keeps evolving especially with the changing landscape of the global economy. In-addition to understanding your motivations, having a grasp of trends in the job market for particular skill sets is equally essential. …

A non-prescriptive way to think about your career Many times over the past decade I have struggled without knowing what strategy I needed to deploy in my career. To be honest, sometimes I had spent more time researching how to advance in my career than the actual time spent on…

It’s almost a decade ago now, but I definitely remember those days when I was running around career fairs with a stack of printed copies of my resume, desperately applying to any job opening related to software development or IT, nervously opening up email responses only to find rejections, aggressively…

I remember the very first time I had a 1-on-1 meeting with my manager. I had no idea what to talk about. I was a new college graduate venturing into professional life for the first time. I was nervous and stressed. This edgy feeling repeated again every time I had…