Questions tagged [internship]
Temporary employments to gain work experience. Generally internships are done during college.
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Obscure technical questions in interview for internship
I'm a graduate engineering student in France, on the last year of my degree. As is customary in most (if not all) French engineering schools, I'm looking for a 6-month-long internship to complete my ...
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Am I a bad intern? Pls tell me [closed]
Ok so here is the thing. I'm currently doing an internship (for school) with one of my friends and our colleagues are her brother, his best friend and a family friend.
no matter what I do there is ...
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Will interning in a small company on a more interesting subject hurt my career?
I am a M.S student in data science/machine learning. I will have to start an end-of-studies internship in a few months. I have several offers in my area and am at a loss about which ont to choose.
My ...
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What is the work experience in internship?
I'm a Junior student.
And I want to apply for some internships.
But, a few internships said that you must write down your work experience.
This part is a requirement.
Actually, I think it's hard ...
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Switching internship subjects after the interview
Yesterday, I went to an interview with a well-known foreign technology company which has some activity in my country (France), for my end-of-studies internship. There were three internship subjects ...
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Should I tell recruiter where I have decided to go?
I accepted an offer from Company A.
Company B is asking where I decided to go and what made me make that decision.
Is there any harm to letting them know?
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I am not getting good vibes from the interviewer for an internship
I just had an interview for an internship the other day and I felt that the interviewer was a little rude and did not appreciate the skills that I possessed. During the interview, he asked me to ...
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I accepted a new job starting a few months from now. How do I keep my current job until then?
Some background, I'm an intern at a big company in the US. When I got my internship over a year ago, I did so with the understanding I'd get offered a job once I graduated. In the last few months, it'...
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Lack of communication from HR after internship offer? [duplicate]
I'm in college and I am searching for software engineering internships for the summer. I received a phone call and written offer from a big, local company about three weeks ago. The position starts in ...
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When should I tell my employer that I don't plan on staying after my internship?
I am a PhD student in the UK due to start a three-month internship in a startup within the next two weeks. When I was made an offer (a couple of months ago), the company pushed very hard to offer me a ...
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How can I ask for help with my handicap not being able to write?
I'm a software engineering student that will be starting an internship soon. But I got a big disability that can't be seen. I can read text perfectly but I can't write on paper (which is usually not a ...
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Paid Internship nowhere near my field of study
It's a mandatory part of my degree (electrical engineering) to take part in several internships and so I joined a company (big corporation) that offered an internship directly at my school.
However, ...
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Asking a previous manager for a reference when they want me back
I worked as an SE intern for about a year at a large local company, before leaving to finish my degree. I left the company on excellent terms, and made it clear that reapplying to the company upon ...
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What to learn about a large company to prepare for interview questions for an Intern position?
I have got an interview tomorrow. I am told that they will surely ask questions about the company.
The company is one of the world's largest investment management firms so it's hard to learn ...
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Bothered with direction co-op is going
I am 2 months into a 6-month co-op (extended internship for those unfamiliar) centered around machine learning. Thus far I have been assigned to work on a couple of projects, all of which have been ...
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Should I quit my 2-semester-long internship now? And how to do so?
background: I'm having a two semester long internship with a local small (only 2 formal employees including the boss, and the rest of the 10 people are all student interns like me) financial ...
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Hiring a graduate student for R&D research [closed]
Recently I started working in a company as an intern. The things that I am working are for the future of the company and applications that I develop solves companies existing problems.
I am facing ...
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Should I ask for a raise one month before the end of an internship?
I am an intern at a small (~100 employees) software company in Europe.
I am part of a team of 6 people (myself included) which develop the main logic that drives our product. One of the six team ...
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Backstabbing, incompetent and lazy interns
I’ve just been made president of my startup but because the budget is low I had to hire two interns. The president I’m replacing decided to select the interns I was going to work with which meant I ...
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My manager supports the KKK and is actively racist- white man working in China [closed]
Background:
I have been interning in an Chinese multinational corporate through a internship program with my American School. My manager has been making sexist and racist remarks throughout the ...
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How to best sell advantages of a very independent software internship?
I'm coming to the end of a summer internship in which I've developed a functional and fairly fleshed out prototype of an IoT solution for a non-techy company with no software engineers employed at any ...
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Convincing future employers on my 'ridiculous' intern experience
Background:
I just finished my 8 weeks summer internship in Shenzhen within a large multinational corporate. I got this internship through a UK government scheme which sends British students to China....
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Senior developer is discreetly remoting in to the computer and watching a coworker
I have a friend working as a software development intern. She mentioned to me that a senior developer, who works with her, was remoting into her virtual machine and discreetly watching her code the ...
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Presentation with feedback
I am an electrical engineering intern at a utility company. The company requires that we have a presentation at the end of the term. The presentation is expected to contain information regarding the ...
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Asking for a recommendation from a colleague to apply for an internship at a company he mentioned to me
Right now, I'm doing an internship at a local company in my province. In October of last year, I decided that I wanted to participate in an internship program in Japan that my school advertises. They ...
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Can an Iranian get an internship at an American company(namely, IBM)? [closed]
Here’s a little bit of backstory:
I moved in to Canada from Iran 2 years ago with my family with just a Visitor’s Visa but after I attended school for 6 months, I got my Student’s Visa and I’ve been ...
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How to ask managers for recommendation for a full-time job at the company that services the company I am interning with?
The company I am currently interning with does not seem to hire entry-level candidates directly into corporate roles.
However, there is a company that services my company (e.g. provides IT support). ...
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Timing of multiple offers [duplicate]
I had an interview last week with a company that I'm really interested in and they called me two days ago to let me know that I got offered the role.
The issue is, this past Sunday I had an ...
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Should I acquire a visa to work in the United states before applying for a summer internship
I'm a UK citizen about to start my penultimate year at university. Like most of my peers, I'm currently seeking as much experience as possible having done a summer internship in London for the past ...
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Is it okay for an intern to leave workplace early on last day?
So I know this question is already on here but with my circumstances I wanted to clarify.
I’m an intern at a company with a pretty laid back atmosphere. My manager is out of the office on my last day....
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Internship in USA (or other country) for my last year of Engineering [closed]
I am 21 years old French citizen and studying in an Engineering School, which is a master grade and i'm finishing my 4th year.
My specialization is Information System (I think the equivalent in USA is ...
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Do you think I'm a bad intern? [closed]
I'm currently doing an unpaid summer internship for graphic design at this small company. Right now, I am more than a month into my internship, but I keep thinking that I'm a bad intern.
I tend to ...
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Is it OK to accept a job opportunity while planning on not taking it?
I am currently a student in computer engineering looking for an internship or a job, which is mandatory to validate my year (both internship and regular employment for my school). I'm aware that ...
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Quitting job right before probation ends
I'm a fresh grad with no job experience but have a hands on skill that I think makes me job ready. I did applied for a job, got selected, got offered a paid internship in order to access me atleast 3 ...
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Should I put “intern” in my e-mail signature?
I'm currently employed as software developer intern and I'm in the process of evaluating different products for my company. For this reason I need to communicate with external companies through e-mail....
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Manager offered a salary range
I am interning at a startup; my internship ends in a month. I was recently called in by my manager and offered a full time position as I have already graduated. In addition, he gave me a range of the ...
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I have accepted an internship offer. Should I inform companies I have applied to that have not gotten back to me yet?
Over the last weeks, I have applied for internships in various companies. A few days ago, Company A got back to me with an offer I like, which I accepted.
I had 2 interviews scheduled with Company B ...
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When is it okay to work overtime because I have to think of a solution before I implement anything?
I'm new at a company doing statistics and I have no trainer or superadvisor and little work experience so there's many things I don't know how to do and I don't even know if there's a way to do what I ...
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Big 4, bad internship experience [closed]
Context: This is my third software engineering internships. The previous two were mid-size company in the US. I excelled at those internship, finished my works, got praised, got reference from my past ...
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How to ask for an endorsement?
I am a junior developer in a medium sized team, and have been given a specific project for the term of my internship.
I have kept my supervisor/superior well abreast of my progress. At every step of ...
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How to tactfully follow up with informal job offer from a few months ago
Since May of 2018 I've been a college intern at a company. Last summer (May - September) and winter (December and January) I worked on a development team. This was not the team I was originally hired ...
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Intern not wearing safety equipment; how could I have handled this differently?
I'm supervising an intern working on a customer site away from the office at the moment. This is an industrial environment and the site rules specify full PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) - Hard ...
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Internship and a full-time job at the same company on my resume [duplicate]
I have worked at a company for 6 years. Some months during the beginning of my career, I was on a paid internship with the same company.
During my internship I had the same duties (same projects and ...
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I have been invited to an interview even though I'm not in search of a job. Should I attend?
I'm currently a first year masters student in physics (2 years for the degree) interested in IT, and a strange chain of events led me to being invited to some IT job fair interviews in a couple of ...
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A student “completes” 2-week project in 3 hours and lies about doing it himself [closed]
Edit and disclaimer: this is not US, and the usage of the word "internship" below is incorrect. It does not refer to an US internship (as I was informed below it means something different). As this is ...
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My boss says I lack communication skills. What does this mean and what should I do?
I am on a 12 month internship. I am a bit introverted and English is my second language. My manager told my prof that I am doing fine but I am not good at communication.
I was wondering if you could ...
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Should I ask to extend my internship/for a full-time offer if I only plan on being with the company for 1 year?
I am starting an MS program in Human-Computer Interaction this upcoming fall on the west coast and am currently interning as a UX Design intern on the east coast this summer. The company is mid-sized ...
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Applying for a job with no relevant experience. What to say in the resume?
So I am building a resume for a friend who is a Computer Science student and seeking an entry job in the industry. Problem is that he never had relevant jobs before. Jobs he had are:
Cashier at a gas ...
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Combating age discrimination as a 17 year old [closed]
Recently I've been getting a serious jump on my professional career now having worked at a Fortune 50 company last summer and currently working for a company which IPO'd a month ago. I've recently ...
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Canceling an internship after accepting offer
I accepted an internship offer this summer after a brief - too brief, I now realize - conversation with a manager. After talking to her again about project specifics I now see that this company is not ...
