[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
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