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Huh, this is funny. I'm a grad student at Stanford and a few months back there was an opening for Mixpanel in one of the job digests that students in the CS dep
by johnswamps 16y ago
Huh, this is funny. I'm a grad student at Stanford and a few months back there was an opening for Mixpanel in one of the job digests that students in the CS department receive. I actually wrote out an application asking if you would consider me for an internship program but in the end I decided not to since you didn't mention anything about being interested in interns. So if you had mentioned it there you'd have at least one applicant :) There's also a job fair in the spring just for start-ups, though I'm not sure how much it costs to attend. It was pretty packed with students last year.
- ropiku 16y agoFrom my experience this summer, many startups don't advertise internships but they were positive when I emailed them. It's worth trying.
- trefn 16y agowhat about this upcoming summer? =)
- spicyj 16y agoI may be interested. What age range are you looking for? I'll have just graduated from high school (planning to study CS in college) but I'd consider myself fairly proficient in web programming. (I've been making sites professionally for several years already. You could see some JS knowledge of mine reflected in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1634648. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1634648.)
- zacharycohn 16y agoMy philosophy is always ask for jobs that aren't listed. If I'm applying for a job, there could be anywhere between 1 and 1,000 other people applying. Those aren't good odds of even getting a glance. If you had applied and asked if you could work for them as an intern, even though they hadn't mentioned it anywhere, chances are there would be one applicant... you. You get brownie points for taking initiative, taking a risk, and best of all - there is no other competition to distract them from you.