YasSpace: Internship @ OrangeHRM

Hey Peeps :) . In the introduction, I said that I am a final year student. In our faculty, we have to complete a 24 weeks internship program in an established and reputed company. So I did an internship which is undoubtedly the "Best Place for an internship". The place is OrangeHRM Inc. (link to site) .

Before sharing my internship experience, I would like to tell you a little but about the company :) . OrangeHRM HRIS was initially a one of the products implemented by hSenid Software International. Initial development work was done by two interns at hSenid at that time. Later this product was highlighted as a good marketable product. Later this product was separated from hSenid and OrangeHRM was formalized as a seperated company.

CEO of OrangeHRM Mr. Sujee Saparamadu is the brother of Dinesh Saparamadu, CEO of hSenid Software International. It was started with five employees. Its first Open Source version was released in 3^rd of February, 2006. From its first launch, it was acclaimed as a good and comprehensive HRIS product. It had the capability of fulfilling most of the HR requirement. After the ten years time OrangeHRM increased its clientele day by day and was awarded in numerous awards like BOSSIE Awards and it was ranked at 4^th in Topmost Popular Enterprise Solution by sourcefourge.net.

Ok, let's talk about the pathway of getting selected as an Software Engineer Intern at OrangeHRM. It was not that easy and also it was not that hard. Recruitment process includes an interview, a written exam in IQ and a written exam in Algorithms. Five of students from our university were called for the interview. But two of us were selected including me :) .

I was interviewed by Mr. Thilanka Kaushalya (Senior Tech Lead) , Mr. Nirmal Wijesinghe (then Associate Tech Lead, now Associate project Lead) and Mr. Buddhika Gunathilake (Associate Tech Lead). Even though this interview was to hire an intern, it seemed that they took this job serious. Because it took one hour and 15 minutes to finish my interview. Later I sat for the IQ and Algorithm Tests and after two days it was confirmed that I was hired as a Software Engineer - Intern.

I must say, the learning experience which I gained from there was awesome. I will share the work experience and learning environment of at OrangeHRM , in another post.

One of the best things in OrangeHRM is the friendly working environment. No matter how senior the person, they treat new recruits like us as their friends and they are always there for our help. The next best thing is OrangeHRM believes in us even we are interns. That made us responsible persons and put some thinking to the work which prevented us from blindly following the protocol.