I wouldn’t consider network programming to be foundational to all computer science, tbh. Are these interns expected to be writing their own sockets? Similarly,

I wouldn’t consider network programming to be foundational to all computer science, tbh. Are these interns expected to be writing their own sockets? Similarly, are the intern projects involving writing out the operational trees of your sql? I would consider these to be great if the intern knew of these things but I wouldn’t expect an intern to be functional in any of it. (I would put kernel writing, compiler programming, security, mobile development, etc. in the same category. If they know some and it applies to the intern project cool, but I brought an intern on expecting them to be worse than useless lol. The goal is to get them towards useful for when the company hires them.)