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Ask HN: Who is hiring interns? (December 2010 Edition)

36 points by pdelgallego 16y ago

Following thedigitalengel idea, For students, apprentices, mentors, or just hackers that want to put their hands on something new or out of their comfort zone. Please mention also if you're willing to hire a remote intern.

swombat 16y ago
I would argue that remote internships are a bit of a challenge, from both sides. As an intern, the value of the internship is in the hands-on learning and the "real-world experience". To learn at maximal rate, you need to be taught, and the experience will count less in future interviews if you're in another country. On the other hand, as the hiring startup, having the intern there means you can better coach them and squeeze better results out of them. The starting productivity of an untrained intern is negative (they take time away from you), and how quickly you get to productive depends on how well you can teach them. Get local internships, imho.
- pdelgallego 16y ago
  Very valid point, but in my experience is not always the case. I participated two times in the GSoC and the last time was the most challenging positions that I have worked in till today. Indeed Google is not an startup an GSoC is about mentorship not about profits. Anyway the thread is about anykind of interns positions, not only about remote interns positions. ---edit GSoC == Google Summer of Code, an mentorship program hosted by Google every summer. I encouraged all HN students to apply to it. Is fun, and you will learn a lot.
speek 16y ago
We're looking for someone interested in learning/helping out with Rails and/or mobile development at Zazu -- where we're building the Smartest Damn Alarm Clock (but we're so much more than that). My personal specialty is in Rails+Mongodb and Android, but we've got an iPhone app in the mix really soon. We do a lot of NLP and big data number crunchey stuff, too, if you're looking to work with that. We've had a few interns this year, and I love working with good people who are willing to learn and build great shit. I'm the CTO of Zazu. Get in touch with me at marc@getzazu.com We're based out of Boston, but you can work from anywhere.
- speek 16y ago
  Lemme rephrase something (comment edit window timed out): The end goal of Zazu is to build Jarvis from Iron Man. We have delusions of grandeur, but we will not rest until it's done. The current iteration of the product is an Android application that replaces the built-in alarm clock with an alarm clock that we believe to be more intelligent: it pulls whatever information you find important -- like your RSS feeds, your calendar, your email, your twitter stream -- and reads that information to you using a Text-To-Speech engine. We're working with a few big brands to create a new form of interactive marketing/advertising and we promise that we're only going to be providing relevant information to our users... so y'all won't be blasted with Colon Blow advertisements 1000x a day. We're going to be leaving the morning space fairly soon, meaning we'll integrate with your calendar to let you know what you need to regarding where you are and where you need to be (both physically and metaphorically). We're trying to transform the moment of alert into a moment of informed decision making. We'll be looking at emails and other areas that involve alerting and decision making, too.
coryl 16y ago
Any social game startups looking for a virtual intern? Email me :D
_mattb 16y ago
Redwood Systems in Fremont, CA: http://redwoodsystems.com http://redwoodsystems.com We make a unified power, control, and environmental sensing platform for LED lights in commercial buildings. We're looking for some interns to start in early 2011 or this summer. Great place to work for those interested in sensor systems, power system design, and user experience. Feel free to get in touch, mball@redwoodsys.com

36 points by pdelgallego 16y ago

swombat 16y ago

I would argue that remote internships are a bit of a challenge, from both sides. As an intern, the value of the internship is in the hands-on learning and the "real-world experience". To learn at maximal rate, you need to be taught, and the experience will count less in future interviews if you're in another country. On the other hand, as the hiring startup, having the intern there means you can better coach them and squeeze better results out of them. The starting productivity of an untrained intern is negative (they take time away from you), and how quickly you get to productive depends on how well you can teach them. Get local internships, imho.

pdelgallego 16y ago
Very valid point, but in my experience is not always the case. I participated two times in the GSoC and the last time was the most challenging positions that I have worked in till today. Indeed Google is not an startup an GSoC is about mentorship not about profits. Anyway the thread is about anykind of interns positions, not only about remote interns positions. ---edit GSoC == Google Summer of Code, an mentorship program hosted by Google every summer. I encouraged all HN students to apply to it. Is fun, and you will learn a lot.

speek 16y ago

We're looking for someone interested in learning/helping out with Rails and/or mobile development at Zazu -- where we're building the Smartest Damn Alarm Clock (but we're so much more than that). My personal specialty is in Rails+Mongodb and Android, but we've got an iPhone app in the mix really soon. We do a lot of NLP and big data number crunchey stuff, too, if you're looking to work with that. We've had a few interns this year, and I love working with good people who are willing to learn and build great shit. I'm the CTO of Zazu. Get in touch with me at marc@getzazu.com We're based out of Boston, but you can work from anywhere.

speek 16y ago
Lemme rephrase something (comment edit window timed out): The end goal of Zazu is to build Jarvis from Iron Man. We have delusions of grandeur, but we will not rest until it's done. The current iteration of the product is an Android application that replaces the built-in alarm clock with an alarm clock that we believe to be more intelligent: it pulls whatever information you find important -- like your RSS feeds, your calendar, your email, your twitter stream -- and reads that information to you using a Text-To-Speech engine. We're working with a few big brands to create a new form of interactive marketing/advertising and we promise that we're only going to be providing relevant information to our users... so y'all won't be blasted with Colon Blow advertisements 1000x a day. We're going to be leaving the morning space fairly soon, meaning we'll integrate with your calendar to let you know what you need to regarding where you are and where you need to be (both physically and metaphorically). We're trying to transform the moment of alert into a moment of informed decision making. We'll be looking at emails and other areas that involve alerting and decision making, too.

coryl 16y ago

Any social game startups looking for a virtual intern? Email me :D

_mattb 16y ago

Redwood Systems in Fremont, CA: http://redwoodsystems.com http://redwoodsystems.com We make a unified power, control, and environmental sensing platform for LED lights in commercial buildings. We're looking for some interns to start in early 2011 or this summer. Great place to work for those interested in sensor systems, power system design, and user experience. Feel free to get in touch, mball@redwoodsys.com