Any chance this will be an ongoing program not limited just to summers? I ask this because there are a growing number of schools (including mine) that have full time Intern/Co-op programs in during the Fall and Spring semesters that I know would have interested and talented students.
This is Kat, YC's Director of Outreach. We're beta testing this program on a small scale for Summer 2014. It may evolve based on how things go this summer, but I can see it becoming an ongoing program.
Awesome,thanks for the reply. I'll keep an eye on it going into my last Co-op next Winter/Spring.
I suggest looking at interns all year long and not just during the summer months. University of Waterloo has a co-op program for students where they have work terms throughout the year. Interns can be very high value if the environment is setup for them to contribute.
Agreed. Especially since University of Waterloo seems to be churning out more talent than ever.
A little more info for those interested:
University of Waterloo has the generic Computer Science program as part of the Math faculty, as well as an another Software Engineering program as a joint program between the Math and Engineering faculties. Both programs offer co-op all year around. For more information, check out: https://uwaterloo.ca/jobmine/employers
As someone with no legal expertise in any area: Well, the companies are getting age/race/gender information from seeing you and they could use this information to discriminate against a protected class, but I don't see how its different from in-person interviewing where they would have access to the same information.
>I don't see how its different from in-person interviewing An in-person interview is a two-way conversation and costly (in time and energy) for both sides. It is ideally a rich experience with a lot of infomation. What we have here is a call for a very short (1 minute) one-way look at the candidate, who is asked in incredibly vague terms to introduce themselves. IANAL but it seems like an attorney could make a case t…
I find the YC interview videos a lot better than solo videos because one of the most interesting data points is how the team seems to interoperate, which you can sort of get a sense of in a 1 minute video. It's a lot less of an argument in a solo process.
Internships would fall under J1, which isn't all that hard to get.
North American interns with a technical background should be eligible for TN visas as well.
Are you speaking from experience? I've found the TN process really confusing for an intern, and if you have any experience with the application process, I'd love to hear about it.
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>Please enter the url of a 1 minute unlisted (not private) YouTube video introducing you. Does this violate equal opportunity employment or is there some weird legal exclusion?
We use video in the YC applications because when a group applies to YC and describes their business on video, we get a lot of information that can't be explained in print. And so, we have the mindset that using video is always a helpful tool for evaluation. However, in the case of interns applying for jobs, we've realized its not adding the same kind of value. We're not sure about its legal status, but even because it could possibly be a grey area, we took it down because we don't ever want to cause any hassles for our portfolio companies.
I suggest looking at interns all year long and not just during the summer months. University of Waterloo has a co-op program for students where they have work terms throughout the year. Interns can be very high value if the environment is setup for them to contribute.