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Fog Creek's Intern Hiring Process

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Re: Fog Creek's Intern Hiring Process

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Post by thedufer »

bcaine wrote: post #18

This sounds like a great program, I just wish it was offered year-round. Even though I think Northeastern University and Waterloo are the only schools with a completely integrated, well defined Co-op program, it seems like its a growing trend. I'd assume having year round interns and a continuous recruitment process would be less disruptive to the team's work velocity and give you a bit bigger reach for students too.…

Fog Creek actually does occasionally do co-op classes during the fall/spring, but there is rarely (never?) more than one at a time and we don't really advertise it.

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HerokuMan wrote: post #30
dominotw wrote: post #24

Can't they atleast hire one person that didn't luck out by being born in a rich/middle class american family to go to ivy league universities. What is such complicated product that Fog Creek makes that it needs graduates from top 10 universities? Serious question.

Jews that went to Ivy League schools tend to hire other jews that go to Ivy League schools

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Re: Fog Creek's Intern Hiring Process

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Post by fredgrott »

HerokuMan wrote: post #30
dominotw wrote: post #24

Can't they atleast hire one person that didn't luck out by being born in a rich/middle class american family to go to ivy league universities. What is such complicated product that Fog Creek makes that it needs graduates from top 10 universities? Serious question.

Jews that went to Ivy League schools tend to hire other jews that go to Ivy League schools

that style of bigotry does not belong here

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Post by mjibson »

dominotw wrote: post #24

Can't they atleast hire one person that didn't luck out by being born in a rich/middle class american family to go to ivy league universities. What is such complicated product that Fog Creek makes that it needs graduates from top 10 universities? Serious question.

Fog Creek's sister company, Stack Exchange, has near zero full-time dev staff from Ivy League schools. It probably makes sense to look for the best interns there, but it may not be a requirement.

http://jasonpunyon.com/blog/2012/07/15/rockstars-went-where/

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Post by ProAm »

HerokuMan wrote: post #30
dominotw wrote: post #24

Can't they atleast hire one person that didn't luck out by being born in a rich/middle class american family to go to ivy league universities. What is such complicated product that Fog Creek makes that it needs graduates from top 10 universities? Serious question.

Jews that went to Ivy League schools tend to hire other jews that go to Ivy League schools

Oh go be a racist-troll somewhere else.

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Post by khyryk »

dominotw wrote: post #24

Can't they atleast hire one person that didn't luck out by being born in a rich/middle class american family to go to ivy league universities. What is such complicated product that Fog Creek makes that it needs graduates from top 10 universities? Serious question.

On their website, they show a bug tracking app, a version control app, and some organizing app. Apart from the money, I don't see anything that would make me excited about working there. Do they work on anything else?

Re: Fog Creek's Intern Hiring Process

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Post by scrumper »

crazypyro wrote: post #9

As someone who just went through the internship process with a few different companies, I find this fascinating. This is pretty much what I expected going into the experience (multiple interviews, at least 1-2 coding questions/examples to do, a test maybe). Out of the few companies I interviewed from, I had nothing as intense as this. The majority of them didn't even test coding/theory knowledge at all. They were jus…

> MOST ANNOYING THING

A weekend is plenty. You're an intern: there are many, many more of you to choose from. As you pointed out, nobody wants to waste time. The person that offered you the placement wants someone who wants to be there, not someone looking for an backup offer.

Re: Fog Creek's Intern Hiring Process

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Post by covi »

1a2a3a4a wrote: post #27
covi wrote: post #2

I have to say the pay is by no way "spoiling". It is no where near the top tier pay (for interns) seen in the industry.

It's not that far off the top tier pay for tech companies. Glassdoor compiled their list for 2014, and it's not too inaccurate [1]. Speaking from personal experience, the numbers for SWE undergrads for some of the companies on the list this year: Palantir - 7,500 - 1,200 for housing if you choose Facebook - 6,200 + free housing Salesforce - Varies per year, 34.50/hr for rising junior, housing. Cisco - 22/hr Quora and…

I'd say Quora and Dropbox can pay much higher, from my personal experience.

Also, there are other places in the industry that pay even higher. But I'd include those with Quora and Dropbox as Tier 1.

In short, Fog Creek is at most Tier 2, along with Google / Facebook, etc.

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