Re:Ask HN: What is your dream internship?
by brailsafe on Thursday April 01, 2021 @05:14PM
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Well ya, obviously that's true, but that's not the point of my comment or the thread. I don't really want to intern anywhere, or for that matter have much more than a shred of aspiration left to work at any company, because I just don't find companies or what they do that interesting. But if I wasn't doing anything, I'd choose to work with evidently neat people, and those have most often been working at Google or on other stuff at Universities, or at the MET center, or at a company owned by Google. I'd maybe also intern as a plumber, or with a wilderness guide.
Working there is a nice credential and a great networking opportunity, but it will likely take a PhD to have much chance of choosing your own adventure.
Even though street view was well more than a decade ago, Google was well past the plucky young startup phase and well into its purple Koolaid for nooglers idiom.
The new hire who got to work on street view was Levoy. The founding myth car trunk is said to be Brin's. And the connection was made via the hallways of Stanford not a state college job faire.
I've met interesting plumbers. Interesting people are interesting because of what they do, not where they work. Which is why I am interested in Marc Levoy. YMMV.