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Author: jacobhm98

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 Exactly 3 years ago, on the 13th of June 2022, I started my internship at Spotify. At the time I was based in Stockholm, on my way to finishing up a master's degree in machine learning at KTH (hah!).
 
-Spotify had been my dream company for a while before that. It was a tech product I unironically loved using as a consumer, a huge success story closely affilliated with my own university, and it was chock full of cool engineering and ML feats obvious to any tech-literate user of the app.
+Spotify had been my dream company for a while before that. It was a tech product I genuinely loved using as a consumer, a huge success story closely affilliated with my own university, and it was chock full of cool engineering and ML feats obvious to any tech-literate user of the app.
 
 I was immediately enthralled by the types of problems we were dealing with. My mentor had scoped out a semi-autonomous workstream I was to drive for the summer, and I was given full initiative and support in thinking about various ways of tackling it.
 
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 ## The past 3 years
 
-Since then, I have gotten to solve, or contribute to the solution of, many more problems. Not all of them have been exciting, but on the whole I can wholeheartedly say that I've enjoyed my work.
+Since then, I have gotten to solve, or contribute to the solution of, many more problems. While some work ends up just being work, I can wholeheartedly say that I've enjoyed my time.
 
-During my time here, my squad and I have maintained the Spotify Kids app, developed and launched [managed accounts](https://support.spotify.com/nz/article/managed-accounts-for-premium-family/) from scratch, and worked on a few other projects that, while really fun to work on, sadly never saw the light of day.
+During my tenure, my squad and I have maintained the Spotify Kids app, developed and launched [managed accounts](https://support.spotify.com/nz/article/managed-accounts-for-premium-family/) from scratch, (mostly) survived 2 RIF's, and contributed to countless other initiatives and projects across the company.
 
-I've learnt so much in that time. I've gotten to design production systems, collaborate across squads, experience software development at scale, and work with some truly talented devs.
+I've learnt so much in that time. I've gotten to design production systems, collaborate cross-functionally and organizationally, learn data engineering, experience software development at scale, and work with some truly talented devs.
 
 So much of my development is directly attributable to the leadership and guidance of the more experienced people on my squad. That environment is hard to recreate, and valuable to stumble into.
 
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 ## What can you do?
 
-If you've read this far, first of all, thank you! Second, add me on linkedin. You're only worth as much as your reach nowadays, and I'll need all the help I can get :).
+If you've read this far, first of all, thank you! Second, add me on [linkedin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacob-hed%C3%A9n-malm-0b2727174/). You're only worth as much as your reach nowadays, and I'll need all the help I can get :).