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Re:Ask HN: How to pursue an unadvertised/nonexistent interns... by patio11 on Sunday February 20, 2011 @10:36AM (#2242045)
A bit of free advice from a consultant: if you get asked for a proposal, write a proposal which includes includes exactly what he needs to know to say "yes" and then ask for the "yes." That doesn't quite come across in that gloss. I don't know if I'd be angling for internships, though.

Do you know what the difference between you and the typical junior Python dev is? The junior Python dev gets paid for programming Python. Seriously. Apply for the freaking job. The worst thing that happens is you get told you have a hole in your engineering skillset. The likely thing to happen is that you will discover engineers are not hired for engineering skillset, because if they were there wouldn't be so many terrible ones still on the payrolls of corporations big and small.

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Re:Ask HN: How to pursue an unadvertised/nonexistent interns... by retroafroman on Sunday February 20, 2011 @10:41AM (#2242060)
This is exactly right. I ended up in an awesome internship that didn't exist until I proposed the position and me as the best candidate for that position. Think of something that they could use or would be advantageous for them and then offer to do it as an internship for them.
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Re:Ask HN: How to pursue an unadvertised/nonexistent interns... by mattdeboard on Sunday February 20, 2011 @10:50AM (#2242086)
I would have no problem applying for a junior dev position, but the position they're advertising isn't for a junior dev. But you're right on just applying (read: being more confident). I am not sure I'm quite ready to forsake pursuing my degree, however. That's probably dumb of me.

About the proposal, the resources I found with a quick search were mostly for companies seeking interns. Do you have a pointer to some resources for proposal-writing for interns? (This is a new concept to me.)

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