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My internship on the Khan Academy iOS team
- crm416 12y agoCan't speak highly enough of the Khan Academy internship experience--I interned with Kasra last summer and it was a pretty incredible few months. From the team to the mission to the culture to the work itself, it's A+ all around. If you're looking for a software internship, I highly recommend applying. (By the way: the Khan Academy iPad app actually shipped _today_. Congrats to everyone back at Khan HQ!)
- andymatuschak 12y agoWe're serious about intern mentorship: http://bjk5.com/post/23266999170/how-intern-mentorship-works-at-khan-academy http://bjk5.com/post/23266999170/how-intern-mentorship-works... If you're an iOS dev who wants to be mentored for a few months by a former UIKit author, hit me up. :) andy@khanacademy.org
- avinassh 12y agoany chance you would consider mentoring remotely?
- andymatuschak 12y agoWe've been pretty insistent on colocation for internships in particular, just because we think synchronous and serendipitous interactions are really important in these kind of apprenticeships. But I'd love to be wrong and discover a way to achieve the same quality of results remotely and asynchronously.
- jianshen 12y agoWonderful write-up and I'm happy to see some details and work that didn't make it into production get some attention here. It's often those exercises that we discard that make us better at what we do. Sounds like a stellar internship!
- d3141 12y agoNice write-up!
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- tunesmith 12y agoAre internships still only for people still in college? That's what I always thought, but I read some articles recently that indicated some programmers with 15-20 years experience are going around and working "paid internships". (I don't really understand the difference between that and a plain old contract.)
- andymatuschak 12y agoAnyone can apply for an internship; you can think of it as a paid, fixed-duration, apprentice-like position.
- tunesmith 12y agoThat's interesting, thanks. Khan academy has been on my crush list for a while, it's fun to consider taking a break from consulting work to apply for an internship...
- Fomite 12y agoOnly sometimes is it paid, and indeed the rise of the unpaid internship "for experience" is something of a problem.
- andymatuschak 12y agoAh; sorry, I was referring to Khan Academy specifically.
- Kronopath 12y agoWhile you may be correct in general, this is the guy who wrote the parenthetical at the end of the article who (presumably) runs Khan Academy's internship program.
- nilkn 12y agoI don't think I've heard of any unpaid internships at any decent technology companies.
- benshyong 12y ago
- noobermin 12y agoLooking at that made me think about us back in the brick-and-mortar version of Khan Academy, us in the university. Our analogous tools like mastering physics and webassign, while they have improved, pale in comparison to Khan Academy's up and coming tools.
- fnayr 12y agoI tried playing the video of the scaling down video animation on safari on iOS and every time I closed the video it would immediately pop back up. I had to quit safari actually to get out of the loop.
- neerajdotname2 12y agoWhere can I find the source code for the scratchpad work. I would like to take a look at it to understand it better since this could be an excellent addon to an educational app I am building for my kids.
- serve_yay 12y agoThese interactions look wonderful. Good on ya.
- SeanDav 12y agoDoes Khan Academy only support iOS and Apple? A quick search seems to indicate that they do not support Android.
- nabindust 12y agoAny other opportunities apart from iOS?