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Take me as an Intern – 19yo student seeking internship

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Re: Take me as an Intern – 19yo student seeking internship

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Post by apsdehal »

teraflop wrote: post #136
silverbax88 wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have hired a lot of developers over the last 15 years and not once have I cared if they have a github account.

It doesn't really matter much to me whether the projects somebody has worked on are open-source. But if they can't be demonstrated to exist , that's something else entirely.

Well, I have a pretty good github profile https://github.com/apsdehal but I still had a hard time finding intern this year. So I would say most of the github profile doesn't matter much, but it sure makes you look impressive. Also as far as I have experienced, if you apply in big companies, nothing matters for internship, only thing you should know is competitive programming.

Re: Take me as an Intern – 19yo student seeking internship

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Post by sailfast »

You're the person that posted the same site two years back, right? (saw on your CV, and remembered the first site).

I was impressed at the time but alas am not in California. Did you ever find a host family in California when you posted this the first time?

Re: Take me as an Intern – 19yo student seeking internship

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Post by blackkettle »

agentultra wrote: post #126

Nice looking site! One piece of advice: don't put C, C++, etc on your resume unless you're really comfortable with those languages and want to focus on them. Your resume highlights your design skills and projects using web technologies. Great! Focus on those! For example, your Github has no examples of C programming skills and your resume doesn't highlight any projects where you'd likely use C. If you were interested…

he says 'a basic understanding of...', and 'code a simple app using...' it's clearly not the focus, but i don't see any problem with that. the only thing i take away is 'he won't run away in terror if i show him some c++'.

Re: Take me as an Intern – 19yo student seeking internship

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Post by Raphael »

Johnie wrote: post #107
josu wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He doesn't say that he wants to work in the US though, or maybe I have missed it. But there are some pretty cool startups in Europe too, and given that Slovakia is part of Schengen he wouldn't have any problems with the visa if he were to work in Europe.

The URL is "Host Me In CA"

Canada is a rad place for internships.

Re: Take me as an Intern – 19yo student seeking internship

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Post by iak8god »

kidsthesedays wrote: post #133

Good god can we please stop with the photos? Do you people really want to go back to the 1950s where a photo was required with a resume? Do you really want your potential employers to be judging you on your looks/race/ethnicity at the resume stage? It may be beneficial to you (you are the "correct" race and gender and you look young and not ugly) but for those of us that aren't - we don't want pressure to include pho…

Including a photo with resume/cv is much more common in Europe than the US.
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