Job Description: Software Intern

MAQ Software Confidential Last Modified: August 2014

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Open Position: Software Intern

MAQ Software is a digital marketing and a technology solutions company that helps customers reach
their markets effectively on time and on budget.
Founded in 2000, the company employs over 350 people in three engineering centers located in
Redmond and India (Hyderabad and Mumbai). Our solutions use advanced Business Intelligence features
of SQL Server 2014, the latest cloud computing trends including Windows Azure and the latest form
factors such as Windows Phone 8.
Engineering Culture:
We foster a strong engineering culture with a can do attitude. All of our key managers share IIT or IIM
type of excellence in their backgrounds with significant experience in developing and growing the
company for many years. Due to our smaller size, our managers lead the effort of adopting the latest
technologies and computing trends ahead of the larger industry players.

Our developers routinely work on challenging technical problems that utilize the latest technologies for
fast paced software delivery. Examples of some of the problems are:

One of our clients has recently made huge investments in marketing and sales using social media
platforms such as Facebook and Twitter. They want to see which of these social networks are
producing positive outcomes and providing key opportunities. The data is literally the entire
universe of social data and reports need to mine through each entry to identify strengths and
weaknesses. The consolidated, cleaned and transformed data needs to be presented using HTML
5 platform that can be accessed using both portable and fixed devices.

Display web site traffic data for ten million users per day. In order to display the web traffic
pattern, you need to evaluate front end technology alternatives (native HTML5 controls or
Silverlight controls and so on). Some of your considerations will be development and testing
effort, browser compatibility, rendering speed, database connectivity, load time, etc. You have to
come up with the optimal approach and implement it within 3 weeks. Some of the tools used are
Visual Studio 2013, SQL Server 2012 and newer SQL Server 2014.

For one of our clients, we developed a COM+ based browser helper object (BHO) to track end
user activity for the sites visited. Based on the sites visited, the business team provides customized
marketing promotions to a certain type of users. Our software solution ensured that our browser
plugin collects data from client machines and sends data securely and privately to a remote
server. Next, we analyzed data to understand consumer behavior and modified promotions to
increase success rate and sales for the promotions. We wrote unmanaged code in Visual C++,
used XML extensively for data formats and related Windows based servers for storing data.

For another client, we developed a Business Intelligence solution to pull high volume data (more
than 150 million rows) from source tables to a staging environment efficiently. We developed
visually rich reports that allow business users to analyze the data from different perspective and
do what-if analysis based on business needs. We developed ETL packages to pull high volume of
data in 30 minutes and developed reports using HTML 5 based controls with optimal page
performance.
Job Description: Software Intern

MAQ Software Confidential Last Modified: August 2014
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Internship Structure:
At MAQ Software, we give you an opportunity to be an integral part of the company during internship
and work very closely with our project teams.

You will get an opportunity to learn and work on latest technologies on Microsoft platform while working
on your project. Your key result areas as percentage of your overall work items will be:
Gather Software requirements (~20%)
Application development using C#, Microsoft SQL Server, SharePoint Server, ASP.NET (~50%)
Business Intelligence (BI) application testing (~10%)
Code Analysis using quality tools (~10%)
Training and certifications (~10%)

Candidate Profile

Eligible Branches:
B. Tech (CS/ IT) pre-final year students

Eligibility criteria:
60% plus or equivalent throughout in post-graduation, graduation, 12
th
and 10
th

No active backlogs in any semester

Location: Hyderabad

Stipend and Benefits
INR 20,000 per month