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Ask HN: Remote Internships?
I'm a sophomore CS student in the upper midwest and I'm looking for an internship for summer 2012. I'm a very passionate student and love absolutely every part of my CS schooling so far. I hope to one day either start my own company or work with someone in starting their own. My school is research-oriented and don't promote starting your own company so experience with a startup would be a great asset to me and to solidify my intended career path. My top goal for a job next summer would be to work at a startup in the Bay Area but this goal brings some problems:
1. It's expensive to get to the Bay Area and apartment prices are ridiculous (compared to our average here). I'm not the wealthiest student in the world. I would love take a net loss for the summer just for the experience but I can't afford it.
2. Being in the upper midwest offers very little for CS-type internships other than the few "throw you in a cubicle and make documentation" positions.
What would be nice, for me, is a remote internship (or to have enough relocation assistance or pay to help disperse the cost of moving for the summer). The problem there is not many people advertise these kinds of jobs. I've inquired with a few companies but many are looking for in-house interns and don't offer any relocation assistance.
Does anyone here know of any good leads for a remote internship for the summer?
- njstartups 15y agoI think there are a lot of startups that would be interested in having remote interns. But, first of all, it would help if you could tell us more about your CS skills, experience, interests, etc. I'm sure more people would be willing to direct you if you can provide us that information.
- tylermac 15y agoI'll post them here since you're the only comment so far. Languages: Mainly C++/C, Intermediate Python CS Courses: Basic and Advanced C++ courses, Data Structures, Intel Assembly, OOP, Parallel Computing (MPI, CUDA, OpenMP), Software Engineering Fundamentals, Digital Systems (FPGA dev). Interests: I really enjoy coding in Python. I'm always scrounging for the coolest modules to try out. I'm also very interested in high performance computing. I'm taking a parallel programming course now and it is absolutely fascinating the amount of computing capability that you can have with a simply graphics card. This course is leaning me towards high volume data-processing work. I'm an extremely quick learner and have never felt bored with any of my CS adventures thus far. Outside of CS work, I play tennis, golf, and have been a hobbyist/performing musician for 6 years.