Interested in the forthcoming successor to EA Hub—to what extent do EA organizations require software engineers to build these networking platforms? I (and probably many other college student EAs over the summer) would be really interested working on a software engineering project to create a Swapcard-and-EA-hub-but-better.
It’d be cool to gather a team of part-time or interning CS/SWE college students and invest in them, given how much effort and money goes into EA conference events but how difficult and time-consuming post-conference followups are.
[Note: The rest are my personal thoughts—we’re a small team that may not have the capacity to consider interns.]
I’ve mentored many interns, and in my experience, it takes a lot of my time to provide a valuable learning experience for them. Unfortunately I think it’s easy for this to end up as a net negative in terms of productivity. I did enjoy the experience, so I think it would be fun to do again, but it’s a bit hard to justify with our team of ~3 engineers.
I would be curious if you think there is something particularly valuable about interning at CEA, vs a tech company with experienced mentors. My guess is that the average student would get more out of the latter.
A couple ways I could imagine this working are:
If someone were just interested in shadowing one of us for a day or two, to learn what it’s like to work here
If someone had a specific feature / project in mind, and required relatively little oversight or feedback from us—our codebase is public, so you could try contributing in small ways first before attempting to build something larger
Interested in the forthcoming successor to EA Hub—to what extent do EA organizations require software engineers to build these networking platforms? I (and probably many other college student EAs over the summer) would be really interested working on a software engineering project to create a Swapcard-and-EA-hub-but-better.
It’d be cool to gather a team of part-time or interning CS/SWE college students and invest in them, given how much effort and money goes into EA conference events but how difficult and time-consuming post-conference followups are.
We are hiring software engineers to help build some of this on the EA Forum. :)
[Note: The rest are my personal thoughts—we’re a small team that may not have the capacity to consider interns.]
I’ve mentored many interns, and in my experience, it takes a lot of my time to provide a valuable learning experience for them. Unfortunately I think it’s easy for this to end up as a net negative in terms of productivity. I did enjoy the experience, so I think it would be fun to do again, but it’s a bit hard to justify with our team of ~3 engineers.
I would be curious if you think there is something particularly valuable about interning at CEA, vs a tech company with experienced mentors. My guess is that the average student would get more out of the latter.
A couple ways I could imagine this working are:
If someone were just interested in shadowing one of us for a day or two, to learn what it’s like to work here
If someone had a specific feature / project in mind, and required relatively little oversight or feedback from us—our codebase is public, so you could try contributing in small ways first before attempting to build something larger