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I worked at a company that took 90 interns per summer. All of them outside of our mobile team did nothing but fake intern projects. We made ours do actual produ
by coldcode 11y ago
I worked at a company that took 90 interns per summer. All of them outside of our mobile team did nothing but fake intern projects. We made ours do actual product work that shipped; the rest of the interns were very jealous. We made offers to three and one accepted, the other two went on to graduate degrees.
- alistairSH 11y agoHow are those "fake projects" not a gigantic waste of everybody's time? We put our interns to work - either embedded on product teams, or working with our architecture/R&D teams on new technology. I think the interns generally enjoy the experience and we try to hire the best of them back after graduation.
- s73v3r 11y agoThey still allow you to judge the capability of those working on them. And in the US at least, you're not supposed to have interns working on something you'd otherwise have a regular, full time employee on. The whole keeping companies from replacing employees with cheap interns thing.
- dragonwriter 11y agoTo the extent that approximates a real restriction, it applies specifically to unpaid interns.
- coldcode 11y agoThe company paid the interns, even the ones that did nothing all that useful.
- rsmove 11y agoAt a prior digital analytics company we ran a 3 month training academy where the candidates spent half their time learning our methodology/trade and the other half of the time working on client projects under close supervision. After several iterations of this process we were able to develop talent efficiently. We were able to have our pick of the talent pool to hire as well as source other top performing candidates to other companies in need of the skillset we taught them.