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Ask HN: Should I take an internship or learn skills and build?

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Ask HN: Should I take an internship or learn skills and build?

#1
I'm finishing my second year of my bachelor's of CS and AI in Madrid. Should I use it for internship or focus on improving my CS skills (proper coding, devops, AI/ML) and building projects?

I feel like I would benefit much more, in the long term and probably also short term, by improving and building but am scared of not having experiences on my cv.

Re: Ask HN: Should I take an internship or learn skills and build?

#3
What kept me as an intern during education is the feedback and the nerdy chitchat. Developing as an intern in a team, where you have your own project and the possibility to chat with experienced people from various fields can be a huge impact. I had no deadlines, so if someone proposed a better way to do something I tried it and I learnt a lot from that.

Besides, talking to other people face to face about your project always gave me a huge motivation boost.