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OFF TOPIC QUESTIONS ARE NOT SUPPORTED!

Internship questions seeking career advice or discussions about workplace issues are off-topic on this site. We recommend avoiding asking any such questions here. Before asking on a different site in the stackexchange network, please review their site rules.

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Can my company give IP rights away for an application I wrote off hours to another startup?

I am an intern for a health company (unpaid), let's call it Company A and I noticed that they are using a lot of paper form for things that can be done on the computer. Excel files for things that shouldn't be in Excel. So I wanted to improve on my…
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How can I salvage my internship?

I'm currently working as an intern at a very large, non-software development company. The position I applied for wasn't specifically a development position, but the team that hired me wanted a CS major to help try to develop some internal projects…
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I'm the .1x programmer at my company. How can I best contribute?

I work at a newly-minted startup of five people. We have a Ph. D in machine learning, a former member of the RSpec core team, and the guy who compiles the Git binary for OS X. That's just the employees; the founder has a Ph. D and was CTO for a…
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How many questions are appropriate to ask as an intern?

So, I just started an internship, and I'm worried that I'm asking too many questions. My mentor assigns me projects and helps me learn all the company's technologies and methodologies. However, there's so much new material for me to learn while…
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How can I avoid causing bugs in the software when I fix unrelated bugs?

I'm a software intern and I am assigned bugs to fix as well as features to add to the software. When I add features, everything works well. My problem is more with fixing bugs. I'm working on an extremely large codebase (span of millions of…
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How to react to wrong/not answered questions during interview?

Today I have held my first interview with potential interns. While this has been mostly open questions, I have had some trivial programming tasks for them: Write a function that returns true if triangle sides (all integers) a, b and c can represent…
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How does one manage an intern effectively?

An intern will be starting with us soon for a couple months before going off to university. The intern is straight-out of high school and has some programming experience, but has never taken a university level computer science course or held a…
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How much effort should you put into a junior developer?

At what point should one give up? I've tried helping them out by having them shadow me. We agree to break a minute, and then they go missing in action for a while...then just go back to their desk. Even when I know they've done this, part of me…
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Making an internship most effective, useful and fun for both parties

We're currently interviewing few candidates for an internship, which is a really new experience for us as a company and for me personally as a team lead/manager. What would be the most effective and useful, yet fun approach for both sides here? How…
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Overwhelmed at Internship

My best friend just started his internship a month ago. The problem is he is discouraged. He was a good A+ student at school, and he is feeling that he doesn't know anything at all. The issues he is working on, although they are on languages he…
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suggesting large changes/a rewrite as an intern

The context: it's an internal project (that I don't think a lot of people use) it's old we're updating it The issues: it abuses the mvc framework (no use of models, business logic in views, etc) what we're being asked to do is small, but because…
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How to handle management pushing legacy systems?

I am currently on a paid internship, and have been tasked with maintaining an obsolete system that has been developed by multiple developers (at different times) over the course of the past 5 years. Management agrees the "system is on life support",…
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Red flags of unpaid IT internship

I read the following question: Tips for a first year CS student looking for a summer internship to gain experience? But rather than how to get and/or look for internships, my questions concerns of how to filter companies looking for free labor to do…
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What are the benefits to a dev team for taking on an intern for the summer?

My Dev team is entertaining the idea of taking on a summer intern or two. It's clear the benefits the intern gets out of such an engagement, but what benefits would the Dev team hosting the intern for a couple of months benefit? Does anyone have…
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I'm scared for my technical phone interview for an internship!

[EDIT 2.0 ]Hello everyone. This is my second phone interview for a development internship. My very first one was okay, but I didn't get my dream internship. Now, I'm facing fears about this upcoming interview. My fears include the following: I'm…
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