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Interns: Everything you need to know about a summer in the Bay Area in one place

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Re: Interns: Everything you need to know about a summer in the Bay Area in one place

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Post by aiur »

up_and_up wrote: post #4

Seems like you have some dups in your topic categories: "Finding an Internship", "Finding an Internship" "Choosing an Internship", "Choosing an Internship" Is that intentional? Kinda confused me at first.

Yes it is intentional. Sorry for the confusion, we're working on organizing the articles better.

Re: Interns: Everything you need to know about a summer in the Bay Area in one place

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Post by pwingo »

gailees wrote: post #3

Do you actually think the problem here is informational asymmetry? Seems to be a supply/demand problem more than anything. Not enough housing. Not enough qualified summer interns. I don't see how a few blog posts will help anyone...

I disagree- I think that there are a lot of interns out there who don't have the right information in order to optimize their search for internships.

I learned computer science a lot later than many of my peers, I stumbled around a lot in the startup world before being able to intern at one of the more well-known companies in the valley- this was only after I had learned many lessons and been rejected or not even contacted by many companies because I didn't know how to present myself in a format that made recruiters want to contact me.

Any resource that helps potential interns to learn more about recruiting in the valley- from finding an internship to choosing an internship- is a good one.

Re: Interns: Everything you need to know about a summer in the Bay Area in one place

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Post by tsunamifury »

Man this housing advice is really pretentious -- only live in Mountain View or SF with an internship salary? Good luck unless you have a trustfund.

Get a place in Berkeley or the nicer places in Oakland and you'll have a great experience and can BART into the city in 15 minutes.

Re: Interns: Everything you need to know about a summer in the Bay Area in one place

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Post by gailees »

tsunamifury wrote: post #7

Man this housing advice is really pretentious -- only live in Mountain View or SF with an internship salary? Good luck unless you have a trustfund. Get a place in Berkeley or the nicer places in Oakland and you'll have a great experience and can BART into the city in 15 minutes.

yeah, it definitely seems like some of these early posts speak from very limited experience.

Re: Interns: Everything you need to know about a summer in the Bay Area in one place

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Post by gailees »

up_and_up wrote: post #4

Seems like you have some dups in your topic categories: "Finding an Internship", "Finding an Internship" "Choosing an Internship", "Choosing an Internship" Is that intentional? Kinda confused me at first.

definitely confused me too...seems a bit disorganized

Re: Interns: Everything you need to know about a summer in the Bay Area in one place

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Post by gailees »

pwingo wrote: post #6
gailees wrote: post #3

Do you actually think the problem here is informational asymmetry? Seems to be a supply/demand problem more than anything. Not enough housing. Not enough qualified summer interns. I don't see how a few blog posts will help anyone...

I disagree- I think that there are a lot of interns out there who don't have the right information in order to optimize their search for internships. I learned computer science a lot later than many of my peers, I stumbled around a lot in the startup world before being able to intern at one of the more well-known companies in the valley- this was only after I had learned many lessons and been rejected or not even con…

but there's just so much bloat out there that just wastes their time when they actually could be actually learning how to better present themselves.
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