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5 Things You Need To Know Before Hiring Startup Interns
- karamazov 12y agoIs the policy of dropping numbers from this sort of title still in effect?
- cjbprime 12y ago2 More Things You Need To Know Before Hiring Startup Interns: (1): Hiring season started last Oct/Nov for competitive tech internships. You're way late if you're starting now. (2): You should pay more than $15-$30/hour for an excellent CS intern -- rates are increasing every year, even up to the monthly rate equivalent of six figure salaries at large companies (Facebook, Google, Dropbox, Amazon, etc).
- a_salhotra 12y agoRegarding 2, most startups don't have the same resources as larger companies and may not be able to pay their CS interns as competitively. So then the question I guess is, how do startups snag awesome CS interns when they're being paid more at other places?
- therobot24 12y agomake the work interesting? Giving a one-off project that goes no-where is not interesting.
- cjbprime 12y agoSeems like the main leverage you could have over those companies as a local startup is not requiring your interns to move to SF/NYC/Boston for the summer, in the case where that's not something they want to do for whatever reason. That doesn't help if your startup is in SF/NYC/Boston, though. :)
- jalter456 12y agoAgree that this isn't that relevant for cs interns. But smaller startups don't hire interns in 6 months in advance. There are still great people available and it would be odd for them to prioritize hiring an intern that far in advance.