Hello Everyone, There are some organizations that looks at GSoC as getting free labour and use it to get as much done as they can within 3 months time, WSO2 is one of them. I was working 60 hours a week and never received any appreciation from mentors. It was very disappointing but I always kept a positive attitude and tried to meet all the deadlines. Mentors were very unprofessional, they would agree on a meeting time and then never show up, or they would keep delaying the meeting saying there is another meeting (I have chat and emails to prove that). They never even cared to send an email about it, there were so many such incidents, where I ended up waiting hours. New requirements kept coming as they wanted to get as much work as possible. There was no feedback on code so I did not learn anything from code perspective, then just before 2 days mentor provided comments which changed everything and I had rewrite most of it. The expectations from WSO2 were completely unrealistic from a student point of view. I sincerely hope that Google looks into it.
Yesterday I was having a hangout call (over a weekend) to discuss the newly created issues and I was trying to convince that I should work on the high priority issue rather than changing the whole codebase and architecture because there is an extra JSON parameter [2]. My mentor shouted at me and threatened to fail me in the evaluation. This is very disheartening as I have worked so hard on this project. My college is already started and I am taking leaves to work on the project. If anyone else has experienced similar situations in WSO2, I would recommend reaching out to GSoC officials as I have done already. I am a 19 year old, first year engineering student (Freshman). All these skills I learnt by myself. In the span of GSoC project, I had to learn Docker, Dockerfiles, Puppet, Kubernetes, Bash scripting, Go language, WSO2 codebase and many other things. It is evident from the code that I have written so far [1]. It is very easy to judge someone without being in their shoes, and I feel like my mentors have been pushing work and standards without caring about my experience level, which in my opinion is completely unfair. I am sure there are so many other great mentors in the organization and my experience might be just one off. However, if any other student has felt similar situations, it should be investigated. Thanks Abhishek [1]. https://github.com/abhishek0198/wso2dockerfiles-test- framework/commits/master [2]. https://github.com/abhishek0198/wso2dockerfiles- test-framework/issues/22
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