Re:Ask HN: Creating an internship program
by johnswamps on Thursday September 09, 2010 @07:24PM
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Huh, this is funny. I'm a grad student at Stanford and a few months back there was an opening for Mixpanel in one of the job digests that students in the CS department receive. I actually wrote out an application asking if you would consider me for an internship program but in the end I decided not to since you didn't mention anything about being interested in interns. So if you had mentioned it there you'd have at least one applicant :) There's also a job fair in the spring just for start-ups, though I'm not sure how much it costs to attend. It was pretty packed with students last year.
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Re:Ask HN: Creating an internship program
by zacharycohn on Thursday September 09, 2010 @08:01PM
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My philosophy is always ask for jobs that aren't listed. If I'm applying for a job, there could be anywhere between 1 and 1,000 other people applying. Those aren't good odds of even getting a glance.
If you had applied and asked if you could work for them as an intern, even though they hadn't mentioned it anywhere, chances are there would be one applicant... you.
You get brownie points for taking initiative, taking a risk, and best of all - there is no other competition to distract them from you.
Re:Ask HN: Creating an internship program
by ropiku on Thursday September 09, 2010 @07:32PM
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From my experience this summer, many startups don't advertise internships but they were positive when I emailed them. It's worth trying.
Re:Ask HN: Creating an internship program
by trefn on Thursday September 09, 2010 @07:51PM
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what about this upcoming summer? =)
Re:Ask HN: Creating an internship program
by spicyj on Thursday September 09, 2010 @11:39PM
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I may be interested. What age range are you looking for? I'll have just graduated from high school (planning to study CS in college) but I'd consider myself fairly proficient in web programming. (I've been making sites professionally for several years already. You could see some JS knowledge of mine reflected in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1634648.)