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If you go to college and do an internship or research fellowship each summer, you will come out with "3 years" of experience.
by williamscales 9y ago
If you go to college and do an internship or research fellowship each summer, you will come out with "3 years" of experience.
- meaydinli 9y agoIs it not mandatory for engineering/CS? I had to do 2 internships for my bachelors, and 1 for my masters.
- phinnaeus 9y agoI did one internship.
- cbhl 9y agoTraditional universities have "summer vacation". :)
- tytytytytytytyt 9y agoNot at the vast majority of schools in the US.
- toomanybeersies 9y agoDepends on the country I guess. In New Zealand it's mandatory for Software Engineering (and other engineering), but not for Computer Science, as it's a science degree.
- nvarsj 9y agoIt's not mandatory. But it's incredibly hard to get hired out of school, even a top one, if you don't do any internships. You gotta grind from day 1 in this world.
- filoleg 9y agoCan you actually do that/do people do that? E.g., if someone did a software engineering internship for at least one semester every year of their college (4 years), can they count those years as field/industry experience? Albeit not full 4, but 2-3 years?
- cbhl 9y agoThe University of Waterloo advertises it as a feature of their co-op program. Four month work terms alternate with four month school terms. Do six of them before you graduate and you have two years of work experience.
- deevolution 9y agoI did an internship every summer during college, but only my last 2 internships were software related. A couple of internship barely qualifies you. In retrospect, I should have asked my intern employers to extend the internship part time into the school year. Then, I think i'd be qualified for entry level. I got lucky on my last internship, tho and they hired me. At most I would count 4 summer internships as 1 year of experience.
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- sudosteph 9y agoYou should definitely count any part-time tech work or summer internships towards total industry experience. Companies may not count it at first, but it will end up giving you leg up. It may not seem like much, but compared to the people who got a degree without working in the industry, I guarantee you know way more and would be more useful to a company. In my case, I got hired at an "entry" level position for a huge company along with other "new college grads" types, many with masters degrees but no experience. I was promoted within a year to the mid-tier position while my less experienced cohorts spent 2-3 years getting there. From mid-tier, it becomes more about what you actually know and what you've done rather than "years since graduated from college", so getting to senior level with only 3-4 years "full time" experience is not impossible if you play your cards right (and really do get good experience during college).
- tytytytytytytyt 9y agoIt's not like you have to pay to submit the application/resume, so you could just try it and see, no??
- aviraldg 9y agoDoes internship experience really count though, in terms of requirements listed on job descriptions?
- williamscales 9y agoAbsolutely, assuming you had some responsibility and worked on an interesting project or two during those summers.
- vokep 9y agonone of it really counts. What really counts is your skills and ability to confidently talk about them. Or put differently, its your choice if internship or whatever experience really counts. You also have to convince the prospective employer to respect your choice, but if you can confidently represent yourself that may be easier than you think.
- williamscales 9y agoDefinitely. It's all about learning a lot and then speaking with the confidence and ability of someone who knows what they're doing and comes across as able to learn more.
- lainga 9y ago4 months in a year...? (It's 16 months total for us)
- your-nanny 9y agoI did that and ended up homeless in L.A. for a summer.
- all_blue_chucks 9y agoWhere I work, if college kids do well in their internships they get offers before they even graduate.
- rrich 9y ago"Where I work?" So what's the lesson, are you trying to project one? Don't end up homeless in CA when your internship goes south, because of?
- all_blue_chucks 9y agoMy anecdote is no less valid, and has a larger sample size.
- your-nanny 9y agoIt was archeology.
- ihalip 9y agoThis would be a great idea, if all internships were paid.