We are in the process of looking to bring an intern on board. For the record, it's a paid part-time programming internship and we would like them to be local. We always struggle on where to look for a good intern, someone who is passionate about programming, likes to be challenged, has a good (their young, so it doesn't need to great ....
I have come into some cash and have a few good jobs I could give to an intern. I want to know what I should pay him? He will be using ASP.NET + C# Work will be in Florida. Work will be on both the desktop and web apps. I was thinking around $10.00 - $15.00 an hour. What does everyone else think? Is it based on experience or should...
What would be your advice to a young student (e.g. a college freshman) looking to get a meaningful internship in Software development Embedded systems/hardware development I've experienced firsthand how valuable such early experience can be, but unfortunately the process I went through to get my first couple internships isn't general...
In brief: would you say a year long internship is better than a summer internship in software development in terms of career prospects? In detail: I'm in the UK studying the penultimate year of my Computer Science degree. I've recently been offered a summer internship at a large investment bank where I will get to work in the codebase o...
I'm starting to send out resumes for a Summer internship. What I'm looking for are some easy ways to set myself apart from the competition. I'm kind of looking at this from a "work smarter, not harder" standpoint as of now. Yes, the best way to set myself apart from the competition is to contribute to an open source project, join a ...
I'd like to apply for an internship this summer but one of the requirements is working on obtaining a computer science degree, I'm currently getting a telecommunications degree. When I talked to someone from the company at our schools career fair they said not being a cs major was not a problem. How do I address the fact that I'm not a c...
I just listened to the most recent SO podcast, and one thing mentioned, that I'd already realized, was the importance of internships. My question is: how do you find/get hired on a decent internship? I'm not an A* student so this already makes it difficult and I've applied and been rejected from some of the big obvious places: banks/IB...
I have an interview with Facebook for a software development internship. I was wondering if anyone has experience or insight into working for Facebook. I have looked through the other questions about common interview questions but wonder if there is anything specific Facebook may ask an intern. Thank you for sharing your experiences. ...
I currently am an 'intern' with a managed services company (much more IT/hosting than development, to my woe) that pays the bills and puts experience on my résumé. The issue I am having is really with what defines the "core" of an internship - learning. I personally have always thought that an internship is an opportunity to receive a k...
I am getting a phone interview for an automated test analyst internship position at a bank. What questions would you think I would be asked? ...
Has anyone interviewed for an internship at Google? This is for a BS level position. How was your experience? How would you compare it to interviews at other companies like Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon, etc? I have a pretty good grasp of CS fundamentals -- the essential/common algorithms and data structures. Any tips? Oh yeah, I've read ...
The job title is "Test Analyst-Batch Testing". I know I will be doing black and gray box testing. I a little unsure on gray box testing. Also it seems like heavy scripting will be involved. My question for people in the software testing industry. What kind of software will I be testing as an intern at CIBC ( the Bank )? What will I learn...
Let's say I'm a college student who previously worked a summer programming internship at a large, well-known company, and this summer I haven't been able to find another one (due to interviews not going well and the economy and so on...). Would it be a bad career decision for me to interview for a "developer technical support" (helping ...
How should we structure a project in source control with prototype + 'real' implementation of the application? We work on a prototype for a new project and store that in source control (Subversion, but the question should be independent of that) with the following structure in our main repository with all our projects: [ProjectName]/ ...
As someone who was recently offered an internship at a large international company, I'm wondering what the typical benefits package for a relocating intern is? Are relocation packages typically even offered, or do most places just expect inters to cough up the cash to travel out there? Length: 3+ months Distance: Over 3000 miles away. ...
Which programming book prepared you the most of interview questions? My friend recommended these: Interview Questions Exposed Career Cup's Book What does this community recommend for someone preparing for an entry level software development/ internship interview questions? ...
with the bad economy internships and co-ops have really dried up. I'll be graduating next year with a bachelors in CS and I don't want to leave the work experience field empty on my resume. what are the other options? Is working on open source projects considered good work experience? ...
We've got a software engineering intern coming in who's fairly competent and shows promise. There's one catch: we have him for 3 months full time and can't count on anything past that. He still has a year of school left, which is why we can't say for sure that we have him past 3 months. We have a specific project we're putting him on. ...
I am a programming student in college. A company that uses ColdFusion has offered me an internship. Would it be a wise move, career wise, to take this internship? ...
I just finished my first year in college and I'm currently looking for an internship opportunity. I just went through our college's archive of job postings from last 3 months and this is what I found out about what employers are currently looking for in the technical side: J2EE Scripting languages (perl/python) SQL - usually any flavor,...