I am a second year computer engineering student at a top university in Canada and I was hoping to be able to work at a startup anywhere this summer as I’ve heard it is a great experience and you can bring a lot of value. Are there any resources to find startups looking for interns? Primarily interested in firmware engineering / swe type roles. Thanks

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  • pyrotek1@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    We are developing a system. We like people entering the field. The system is a clean technology and is fun to work on. If you would like to meet and discuss, no commitments. We program and develop our own firmware.

  • climateowl@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Some advice on asking for internships at startups… I am founder of a 11 person YC backed startup and get 2-5 internship requests per day. We do not hire or interview any but have a standard reply we send to all. Interns need a ton of training as by definition they don’t have much in the way of experience and skills so really what they can offer is energy. And that is great! But in my view for a less than a 50 person startup that is fast growing has very little capacity to onboard an intern. Basically, target companies of +50 plus people. And most importantly say one specific thing you can help the founder solve. Saying, ‘I will help with anything’ is really bad. Because you are making the founder the one to figure out what to do with you. Rather say, I will make 50 cold calls a day for your sales team. Or, I will manually QA every new feature on staging before it’s pushed to prod. Or, I will pretend to be you on LinkedIn and reach out to software engineering candidates you are trying to hire and book in calls with them. If you get that specific you are way more likely to be considered as you are clearly willing to do what an early stage startup needs.