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I think you are talking over the post. Interns do the grunt work no one else wants to touch, up to and including making coffee. No one really expects much from

I think you are talking over the post. Interns do the grunt work no one else wants to touch, up to and including making coffee. No one really expects much from them. But I personally like that blue collar work ethic.

mathgladiator 5y ago
When I was at Amazon, interns got to do greenfield work because that was how senior engineers got their projects off the ground without a six pager.
josephg 5y ago
> No one really expects much from them. I think it’s really easy for people to accidentally have a net negative impact on the productivity of a team. Especially early in their career, especially if they’re only there for a few months. Having interns is probably still worth risking that - they bring some life and variety into an office and they’re only around for a few months anyway. But I would be leery about adding a junior engineer to my team if we’re using manual memory management and they don’t get it. You might have to obsessively code review all their stuff to make sure they don’t introduce memory bugs. Memory correctness in iOS programming probably usually doesn’t matter that much, but a bit of wariness is reasonable and understandable. Overworked engineers might also not want to spend their time handholding an intern if its not in their KPIs to do so, and they don’t consider that to be part of their role. This is a cultural thing as much as anything else.