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Re: Who is hiring? (Intern Edition)

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Atlassian's Summer Developer Internship is hiring software development & UX students with a penchant to hack. Our summer 2012 paid (including salary, travel, housing, etc.) internship starts with 4 weeks in our HQ in Sydney, Australia, wrapping up with 6 weeks in our new San Francisco digs. The challenge is to push a whole new product or a major product plugin through its entire lifecycle, from concept to launch. This project will support Atlassian's mission to create a product that will make the life of developers better.

Details of our program are here: http://www.atlassian.com/company/careers/interns

Send your cover letter, resume & links to any work/projects you've completed here: http://tbe.taleo.net/NA3/ats/careers/apply.jsp?org=ATLASSIAN...

Re: Who is hiring? (Intern Edition)

#33
OctaneNation, a Start-Up Chile graduate, is looking to change they way automotive enthusiasts interact. Positions are available for passionate enthusiasts who also think that forums are broken. The market of parts to customize cars is $30B in the US alone...

Send an email with your background and interests and we can discuss in more details how you can fit in. Opportunities exist for biz dev, design, and development.

Re: Who is hiring? (Intern Edition)

#34

London (UK) and Boston (US). We're a 100-person financial-software firm committed to learning and improvement as well as great web software and agile development. We use Java, Scala, and some Groovy; we always write tests first and pair on most coding tasks. Developers have Linux workstations with at least two monitors. We have weekly lightning talks that cover finance and technical topics. We have "real" 10% time wi…

Are you looking for interns in software Engineering too.Let me know.

Re: Who is hiring? (Intern Edition)

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Khan Academy (Mountain View) is hiring: Our mission is to provide a world-class education to anyone, anywhere. We already have millions of students learning every month, and we're growing quickly. Our students answer over 2 million math exercise problems per day, all generated by our open source exercise generation framework ( http://github.com/khan/khan-exercises , http://ejohn.org/blog/khan-exercise-rewrite/ ), and…

Potentiality useful advice for those seeking to apply to Khan for an internship (from a functional language college kid who applied to Khan and bombed the interview):

When they say you can use whatever language you want for the coding interview, that means use Python or JavaScript. It doesn't matter if you wrote Learn You a Haskell, hack Erlang into the wee hours of the morning, or taught a class on Clojure. You won't win any points to use things like infinite lists for Fibonacci numbers or just say that a memoize function exists already as part of the core language. Although I can't say for certain, I had the distinct feeling that my interviewer thought I was just making stuff up when I started talking about the aforementioned topics and how they worked in Clojure. Functional languages are so far removed from what most developers do everyday that it probably just looks like nonsense if they haven't seen it previously.

Stick to Javascript or Python. When you get your interviewer's name, go to the khan github page and look at the code that person has written.[0] Do they write really good code in a certain language? Are they contributing to open source projects only in that language? Pick that one. Learn it inside and out. They will be on their home turf and feel more comfortable. If you can teach them something new and exciting about the language, then you will probably stand a much better shot of "winning" the interview.

Good luck!

[0]https://github.com/Khan

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