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Intern at a YC Company
- crixlet 13y agoI get a blank screen....
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- Toucan 13y agoWorks for me. On, err, IE6.
- rjvir 13y agoAlso getting blank screen, on iPhone 5s
- polymatter 13y agomaybe this is part of the test? /jk
- namenotrequired 13y agoIn case anyone still can't access it: Intern at a YC Company by Y Combinator Would you like to intern at a YC company this summer? We're helping place paid interns at YC-backed companies like Dropbox, Stripe, Optimizely and others. You'll get: > A chance to work with one of Silicon Valley's most exciting companies > An invitation to YC's intern conference Please fill out our application[1] by March 21, 2014. We'll notify you by March 31 if you've been accepted. [1] https://ycombinatorevents.wufoo.com/forms/intern-at-a-yc-company/ https://ycombinatorevents.wufoo.com/forms/intern-at-a-yc-com...
- Xdes 13y ago>Please enter the url of a 1 minute unlisted (not private) YouTube video introducing you. Does this violate equal opportunity employment or is there some weird legal exclusion?
- gadders 13y agoAn interesting point. I doubt if it would be used for that, but it could be.
- learc83 13y agoI think it's probably a bad idea in general, and most large companies avoid doing it just because it could be used for this (age/gender/race discrimination). Sure you're eventually going to interview, but this could open a company up to potential actions by a much larger pool than just people who made it to the in person interview.
- canistr 13y agoPerhaps alternatively, this is a test by some hot new, stealth-mode YC startup to test the viability of video interview screening? And simply using interns as a small test subject pool. Furthermore, because interns are the testing pool. The turnover of selecting quality interns and seeing how they turn out over a summer internship would provide good data for whoever the startup is doing this.
- jordsmi 13y agoThey do the same thing for regular YC applications, so I don't think its anything crazy new.
- seiji 13y agoThough, there's a large difference between overt "we want to discriminate against who joins our private secret society" and "we want to discriminate against potential employees." The goal of the video is so they can form opinions about you more quickly. They don't want to waste time getting to know you or your history on paper if you turn out to be somehow unlikeable or unworkable as a person. [Also see: online dating. When you read profile text, you read it as yourself and form opinions based on your ideal world view. When you end up meeting and dealing with someone in person, you end up seeing how much they completely don't match the ideas you formed from textual communication.]
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- Tyrant505 13y agoThis is a great idea which I thought YC should have been doing for some time now. It also translates well to hires because of culture, experience, and passion for the team/product.
- ddorian43 13y agoAre there remote interns ?
- louisremi 13y agoYep, would it be possible to work from a different continent and a different time zone?
- crixlet 13y agoIs this the first year that they are doing this?
- gautamnarula 13y ago> Please submit your application by March 21. We'll notify you by March 31 if you've been accepted. That's it? There's no interview or coding test? I'm all for a quick process, but I've never seen a tech company accept interns like this. Or does accepted mean you've been accepted for an interview at a YC company?
- jonalmeida 13y agoIt looks more like a higher-level or job searching for startups. If YC thinks you're a good fit, they add you to a job pool for the start-ups to pick and choose people to actually interview the candidates. Some companies function like that, where the "startups" are the company teams. This is all perception of whether YC will actually follow this method of course..
- katm 13y agoIt means you've been accepted for an interview at a YC company.
- charlie_vill 13y agoDoes anyone know what are the dates for this internship? Is it May-August?
- bcaine 13y agoAny chance this will be an ongoing program not limited just to summers? I ask this because there are a growing number of schools (including mine) that have full time Intern/Co-op programs in during the Fall and Spring semesters that I know would have interested and talented students.
- katm 13y agoThis is Kat, YC's Director of Outreach. We're beta testing this program on a small scale for Summer 2014. It may evolve based on how things go this summer, but I can see it becoming an ongoing program.
- bcaine 13y agoAwesome,thanks for the reply. I'll keep an eye on it going into my last Co-op next Winter/Spring.
- krrishd 13y agoAny prospect of accepting high schoolers who have the necessary skills? Would it help if I am concurrently enrolled in college as well?
- zachlatta 13y agoGo for it and apply. I'm sure you're qualified :-)
- cenhyperion 13y agoI can back Krish up as a talented dev.
- krrishd 13y agoThanks :)
- rohanpai 13y agoI always see this and want to say this: if you are a high schooler, do not ask for permission to apply, just apply.
- wyclif 13y agoNothing but a blank screen in the latest version of Chrome.
- gregchapple 13y agoI've noticed a strange bug with the latest version of Chrome where pages sometimes don't render. Try opening the developer tools, this usually causes the page to render for me.
- redthrowaway 13y agoI've noticed the same bug, but dev tools doesn't seem to do anything and view-source is blank. This one though seems to be a site issue: $ traceroute blog.ycombinator.com traceroute to posthaven.com (50.63.202.48), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets 1 10.142.83.65 (10.142.83.65) 0.892 ms 0.719 ms 0.769 ms 2 216-13-232-1.dedicated.allstream.net (216.13.232.1) 1.213 ms 3.646 ms 1.234 ms 3 216-23-136-13.dedicated.allstream.net (216.23.136.13) 2.256 ms 8.470 ms 1.299 ms 4 66-46-123-225.dedicated.allstream.net (66.46.123.225) 18.638 ms 12.393 ms 13.011 ms 5 eqix-ch.godaddy.com (206.223.119.141) 58.324 ms 61.302 ms 60.216 ms 6 * * * 7 * * * 8 * * * 9 * * * 10 * * * etc
- johannh 13y agoWhat if I'm not from the US and require a work permission? Any chance of applying?
- redthrowaway 13y agoI have no inside info, but my guess is probably not. Unless we're talking about AirBnB or Dropbox, most YC companies aren't going to want to take the time out to deal with the regulator¥ hassles of H1B sponsorship. That said, for the perfect candidate, exceptions will be made.
- psuter 13y agoInternships would fall under J1, which isn't all that hard to get.
- mrtron 13y agoNorth American interns with a technical background should be eligible for TN visas as well.
- fnbr 13y agoAre you speaking from experience? I've found the TN process really confusing for an intern, and if you have any experience with the application process, I'd love to hear about it.
- NkVczPkybiXICG 13y agoTNs aren't for internships. J1s are.
- mrtron 13y agoYes. Get the company's lawyer can fill out the paperwork for you and you show up at the airport with the paperwork and receive a visa. You can't apply in general for a TN, it is company specific.
- marukokinno 13y agoHELP, I just got infected by clicking in the top article of HN, the one named 2048, when I clicked ,it automatically downloaded a file with extension .patch, when I try to delete the file, the OSX says "finder wants to make changes". what should I do? I clicked in the comments of the article, not the article itself
- mrtron 13y agoI suggest looking at interns all year long and not just during the summer months. University of Waterloo has a co-op program for students where they have work terms throughout the year. Interns can be very high value if the environment is setup for them to contribute.
- brownBananas 13y agoAgreed. Especially since University of Waterloo seems to be churning out more talent than ever. A little more info for those interested: University of Waterloo has the generic Computer Science program as part of the Math faculty, as well as an another Software Engineering program as a joint program between the Math and Engineering faculties. Both programs offer co-op all year around. For more information, check out: https://uwaterloo.ca/jobmine/employers https://uwaterloo.ca/jobmine/employers
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- tonglil 13y agoAs a co-op student at the University of British Columbia's software engineering program, I want to back this comment as I have 16 months (continuously) of co-op left to look for internships!
- wz3chen 13y agoWish this was posted earlier, already landed a job. Will this only be available for summers?
- DRAGONERO 13y agoWhat if I graduate in march (this year)? Can I still apply? (I would require a J-1 visa, but recent grads can get it, it seems)
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- kyro 13y agoIs this just for technical internships?
- derekchiang 13y agoI think most US undergrads start applying for internships during the fall semester and many of them will have already accepted an offer by now. I strongly suggest YC to open up this application earlier, ideally in October or November.
- dave5104 13y agoIn my experience at Stanford, this usually wasn't the case. Most people started looking for internships around February-April. Obviously not the case everywhere... but it's the case at arguably one of the closest talent pools to YC.
- HeavenFox 13y agoBoth Google and Facebook stopped taking applications in late February this year. So you guys should probably start earlier
- lmartel 13y agoStanford's recruiting schedule seems to move earlier every year. There was a major intern-focused career fair at the beginning of October.
- Derander 13y agoI'm a current Stanford junior. In my experience most people feel stressed if they haven't committed to an offer by early February. The major career fairs for internships take place mid-January, with a more full-time oriented fair occurring in October. The majority of CS majors I know were locked in before mid-February.
- thedufer 13y agoWhen I was in school, most of the big tech companies were done with intern applications by the end of March or so. Anecdotally, my employer has ~10 interns each year and all but one or two have signed offer letters by the end of February. I would definitely suggest moving things up in the future (obviously its too late this year).
- deft 13y agoThis is sweet news, I don't have any actual job experience so getting an internship this way would be amazing. Good luck to everyone applying!
- ngoldbaum 13y agoCan grad students who are interested in leaving academia apply?
- pseut 13y agoYes :)
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- pedelman 13y agoCrossing my fingers!
- lmartel 13y ago>An invitation to YC's intern conference That sounds neat. Will interns working at YC companies but not placed through this program be invited?
- HeavenFox 13y agoIncoming Dropbox intern here. Interested in that as well. Could someone from YC answer that? Many thanks!
- WorksOnRobots 13y agoAnother YC intern here. I want to know this too.
- bestkao 13y agoI'm curious if YC itself is looking for interns.. it looks like they might need help fixing the blank screens people have been getting, haha. Nonetheless, this is awesome!
- jawerty 13y agoThis is intriguing but the application website isn't working for me. The blog post is working fine though.
- 4globey 13y agoDo you think applying for this as well would negatively effect one's summer YC application?
- dexkiki 13y agoDo you have to be a current student to intern?
- throwaway7808 13y agoA bit of advice. Do check that you are not doing an internship with immature first time CEOs/CTOs. I've seen an intern lied to, abused and dismissed without recommendation letter and promised salary by a CEO/primary founder of a YC company that I was with. This was no fault of that intern and AFAIK was done primarily because that [recently immigrated from India] CEO wanted to save about $3k of moneys. One of the reasons I've left that company and dropped from YC BTW... edit: a clarification. this is anecdotal evidence and probably doesn't reflect statistics of YC companies in general.
- argonaut 13y agoI agree. However, as with all things in startups, while there are a lot of founders who are still very inexperienced with managing, there are also probably some founders who are fantastic mentors.
- CaptainBuggy 13y agoInteresting how you consider "[recently immigrated from India]" to be relevant here.
- throwaway7808 13y agoI don't know. Maybe I'm very wrong here. But I think there is a correlation between 'fighting for scraps' behaviour and 'recent immigrant'. I do not have statistics to confirm that.
- venturebros 13y agoDo we get a choice of what we do? I am interested in testing and security only not so much feature building and front-end work. Also, do grad students qualify?
- tosinaf 13y agoCan international students apply?