Questions tagged [internship]
Temporary employments to gain work experience. Generally internships are done during college.
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Applying for an internship at the same company I completed one
I completed an internship in June this year and the same company have just listed another internship in a different department in which I am interested. The company is not very large, I have ...
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Dealing with a terrible intern who is in consideration for full-time hire
For the last month I've managed an intern in my department. This year will be my 3rd year managing an intern, however my last two years were with the same intern. My first intern was very good at not ...
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How to politely inform I am not interested in a tentative full time offer from supervisor after internship?
I'm currently interning at a company A and my supervisor asked if I would be interested to continue working here. The conversation mainly consisted of him discussing with me if I would be interested ...
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As an intern, how should I discuss about a matter with many supervisors?
I am a newly joined intern at a company. Recently, I was tasked by my supervisor to discuss a matter with supervisors A,B, C and D from another department and get their opinions about it. I have not ...
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No response after accepting the job offer
So I got accepted to an internship from what I can say is my dream company and I am very excited (and also nervous). The interview went well, and the HR staff sent me an offer letter that contains:
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Should I request a change of my project in my internship?
I recently had a pre-meet for my internship, where I was assigned a project. The work hasn't started yet and the problem statement given was a little abstract. So I had to research a bit on it and the ...
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(High Schooler) What to do with research idea - R&D internship or Own Startup?
My Background: I am 17 years old and I am currently about to end my junior year in high school. I'm pretty good with CS, having done a lot of projects over the past few years, some of which went to ...
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Using work that was done in an internship to create own product/business
I'm considering an internship offer at a company that does R&D work. If I accept, I'm going to develop some technology in this internship, file a provisional patent in my name, and publish a paper....
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How to apply for jobs while in an internship
I am soon to start an internship which will last 3 months and don't know how to apply for a job which I am also interested in.
Additionally, I want to email this person who works at the place (Let's ...
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Should I Accept This Consulting Internship Offer? [closed]
I was recently offered a consulting internship at a management consulting firm. They're not MBB but also not a boutique firm (they have around 1,000 employees worldwide). However, after the interview ...
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Is it possible to work as a remote junior developer?
I've been learning web development for a while and will soon start looking for a job. Unfortunately, opportunities are very scarce where I live, so I'll have to look elsewhere. So, I'm thinking about ...
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Mistake during internship
I've been an intern at a company for a little over a month and I have made a mistake. For context, this same mistake was once made by my manager when I first started and they pinned it on me, so this ...
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I want to get a Java dev internship with no prior cs background and with the help of a technical project to present, I'm not sure of my chances
I obtained my licence in economics but without pursuing because it became obvious I wouldn’t get the career path I wanted so I decided to switch to software development. During my bachelor courses, I ...
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Am I being too hasty about wanting to be recognized?
I have been a intern developer at a multinational company for 7 months now. I was very motivated and satisfied with my position for about 3-4 months, until I realized that there were other full-time ...
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How extensive should a GitHub portfolio be for a CS student with no "real world" experience looking to secure their first internship?
I am a CS student that has reached the senior level of the degree program. As someone with absolutely no "real world" experience in terms of working a job related to computers, I feel that ...
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Can I ask to "audit"/"shadow" a position, if I'm not selected?
I just had an interview.
I'm about to send a follow-up email. In that email I'm considering asking if "shadowing" the position is possible, that is the following:
I won't be recognized as ...
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Would a HR be displeased if I give her work phone number to my close friend who is keen to apply for a job? [closed]
From last December to January, I interned at a MNC. That company is currently recruiting some roles. My friend is keen to applying for a particular role X, so I gave the HR's contacts details (work ...
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How to inform candidate interns of blacklisted supervisor in a professional way?
In the team where I work, we often have interns conducting their thesis assignment, in an engineering related field on a topic decided by us. The usual procedure is that we interview the candidates ...
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It's been a month since I didn't hear back about a technical evaluation which I was selected for; what do I do?
On February 2nd, I got a Google form in my inbox which required me to fill in details such as internship field preference, duration and start date. The last date for filling this form was February 8th....
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Do interviewers treat interns rude all the time? [closed]
I received an invitation email for a next-day interview and the time scheduled was very bad which was at 12pm, I asked for rescheduling but the HR said they do not have any available slots throughout ...
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Two internship offers - one contingent on funding
I have received two internship offers. One company (company A) gave me a deadline (tomorrow) to accept or decline - although, it's not a formal offer letter. Rather it's an "expression of our ...
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What exactly does 'must possess unrestricted work authorization' mean?
I've been checking out remote USA internships to apply to. Some specifically mention that even though this is a remote internship, they are not hiring candidates from outside the US. But there are ...
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Is a long waiting period for an official offer bad?
I recently received two internship offers that I'm enthusiastic about. One is with a very large Fortune 500 company while the other is a mid sized company. The very large company has sent me a ...
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Correct way of following-up with unresponsive recruiter
I applied to a summer internship position online some 3 months ago. A few days after submission, my application moved to the "review" stage and since then, I have heard nothing from the ...
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Answering the question why my work history has been all short term
In school I had several co-op work terms that were 4 months long. After graduating I've held several short term contracts and in between I worked e.g. retail to pay the bills. I had an interview where ...
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While applying for a potential internship, should I mention to HR that it was my friend (intern there) who gave me the HR's email address?
I have obtained the email address of the HR from my senior (friend) interning at my dream company. As I am also keen to intern at the same company this coming May, in my writing of email to the HR, ...
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How to ask for a different contract after a 6-months internship?
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I'm a junior developer with a 1 year and 6 months of experience. I'm currently in a start-up (14-20 employees) where I'm working as a web developer on the company's main app/product (it's a ...
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How to build a portfolio in Computer Science? [closed]
I have seen somewhat similar questions to this here but I'm not sure any of them answer what I have in mind so hopefully you good people can be of more help
I am currently a second-year Computer ...
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What is auto enrollment?
I applied for a job for a Machine Learning Intern from LinkedIn and then received this auto generated email.
Dear X,
I am pleased to extend the following offer of Machine Learning
Trainee to you on ...
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Software Engineering Internship: Knuckle down and do work or build my portfolio? [closed]
I am currently interning as a software engineer for a medium-large company. I have a lot of autonomy in my role to learn at my own pace with little expectation and oversight, essentially I can take on ...
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Ask when sign-on bonus will be paid
I have recently secured an internship position, and I was offered a salary rate for the duration as well as a signing bonus. I received the offer around October last year, with a start date during the ...
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Is it okay to quit my internship early? [closed]
I just got an unpaid internship at a law firm. It is somewhat helpful for what I want to do with my career but it was not my first choice. I have been there less then a week and when I applied the job ...
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What is expected of interns in software development?
I'm an almost-graduated student that recently got an internship as a backend dev.
I was reasonably familiar with the language to be used and my problem solving abilities were decent, so I got the ...
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Should the stipend be paid if working remotely?
So currently I am a final year undergraduate from a university in India and I am doing a research internship at a University in the United Kingdom.
The researcher under whom I am working had earlier ...
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Quality assurance vs Software development internship as a precursor to Data Science career
Here is my situation,
I'm a bachelors student, and i will soon be enrolling into a data science masters course. I plan on continuing a career in data science.
However, i have some free time right now ...
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Telling recruiter about offer from another company?
I'm a college student applying for an internship.
Until Monday, I was in the recruiting pipeline for 2 companies. Then, one of the companies extended an offer, which I accepted (for a summer ...
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Work as intern (paid or unpaid) without being a student
I don't have official working experience. I got my master degree in computer science (computational complexity) about 4 years ago. I worked as a freelance translator since my bachelor (2011) and still ...
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Reneging a Summer Internship Offer that I already signed
I received a summer internship offer from a financial firm (however, this was not my top choice) and signed the contract as it was my only possible offer and I have not been hearing back at all from ...
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Doing right by a colleague who IMO was tricked?
I'm part of small organization and this more or less represents my position in the org structure in my part of the company
Bob(3)/
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Pursuing a Career in Audio Software Development [closed]
I'm a Second Year Sound Engineering & Production student who, having enjoyed the Audio Software Development module in the first year, is looking to pursue programming as a potential career. Once ...
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How long can I leave it before accepting or declining a job offer?
I just got an offer for a year long internship and I'm very excited about it but I want to be smart about this as I am also mid-way through the application process with a couple other companies.
The ...
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How to Approach a Particular Recruiter as a Third-Year Undergraduate
I am a third-year undergraduate applying off-campus for a 2021 internship in a particular company.
This company had submitted an INF(Internship Notification Form) to my campus a few months ago, ...
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Internship promised in written form was canceled - how to proceed with company?
My already accepted internship at an IT-company was canceled. The reason they mentioned to me were that almost all employees of the department I was supposed to work in are currently in home-office ...
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Wrong employment dates in a background check
I just got an offer for an internship, contingent with a satisfactory background check. The story is I worked as a temp for a company in beginning 2019 and decided to attend grad school in Jan 2020. ...
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CEO names COVID-19 affected employee to whole firm [closed]
I work in a French company with ~100 employees. I tested positive for Covid-19, then immediately contacted my N+1 (= direct supervisor) to list the 2 people I have been in contact with at work, with ...
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What reason should I give for no longer wanting to work for my company?
I'm currently working at an internship that started at the beginning of the summer. The internship was only supposed to last for the length of the summer, but my company decided to keep me and a few ...
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Joining a company with bad reputation
I'm going to start an internship with a company that is currently not well-liked in some parts of the world. I am kinda cash-straped, and not doing this internship would put me in a worse financial ...
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Poor Internship Experience - Next Steps
I got an internship of 8 months from January to August. It was for a customer service role and my main job was to use SAP and enter orders for the most part. A lot of emails but overall, it wasn't too ...
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Is this a leave me alone
Pre-covid I had applied speculatively for unpaid internships and had one decision maker write back that he:
really didn't have anything suitable at the current time
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How can I guarantee that an internship offer involving international relocation won't be revoked?
Can I ask a potential employer to add a point in their offer letter explicitly stating that the offer made by him/her shall not be revoked or if he/she could specify the only circumstances under which ...