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Ask HN: Looking for interns / entry level?

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Is your company looking for interns for the summer?

Do you care more about talent than years of work experience?

Are you an inexperienced but ambitious hacker/designer/<anything which may be useful to a real company> looking for something more stimulating than mowing lawns?

This is your thread.

As always, if your position is location specific, please say so in the post.

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Chicago or New York. Paid. Help build a cool new Rails product, or contribute to security research on hugely important industry projects: you pick. We'll take on interns year round.

We're looking for exactly one thing: willingness to code (in any language).

Would you consider candidates from Canada?

Where in Canada are you?

I'm in Montreal. (olalonde@gmail.com)

Application (by email) sent.

Are there any age restrictions? (High School Junior, 17).

I'm a graduating fourth year Computer Science major at Georgia Tech looking for an entry level job. I code well in Python, Lisp, Java, C++, as well as having worked in Lua, Smalltalk, C, Netlogo and C#. My experience is mostly in Robotics in addition to Modeling and Simulation, however I've done some website work. I'm fairly well versed in algorithms as well. Contact me on my e-mail in my profile for a copy of my resume.

Hi I'm a Junior at Stanford in Biogeochemistry and Economics. I'm looking for a do-anything, put-on-different-hats ('cept coding as I've only taken intro CS) internship anywhere in the world (Bay Area, NYC, Mongolia, etc) for the summer- paid, unpaid, plastic tchotkes is all good.

Thanks! elee89 _at_ stanford dot edu

Hello, I too am a Junior studying Economics (at Northwestern University though). I am looking for anything paid or unpaid for this summer.

Feel free to check out my website http://andregarrigo.com/ or shoot me an email andregarrigo@gmail.com

I won't bite, promise!

Here is a Google Doc with all the info from this thread. Feel free to add yourself.

https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0ASrV38bNy1TlZHhqNjlmel8xM...

P.S. I'm looking for a marketing internship :)

We're looking for an intern in Shanghai. Paid but not much (but more than enough to cover the cost of living in Shanghai)... You would be working on Rails app and play with cool and fun things like cappuccino, redis and mongodb. Possibility of getting hired full time later on.

So, if you want to discover China and join a small growing startup (we do both consulting and our own products), send me a mail at guillaume -squiggly sign- agiletomato.com.

We're also interested in designers...

Wow I'd love to do this but currently engrossed in my own project at the moment.

Thats looks like a great opportunity, wish you were looking for marketing people

send me an email, a friend of mine was looking for marketing people... so I'll forward him your contact...

sent!

Do you know any Marketing positions in the NY area?

We're Timetric. We're based in London and working on helping people find and make sense of the statistics they need.

http://timetric.com/

On the development side, if you're into things like visualization and interactive information design, statistics and financial mathematics, finding and cleaning up data, metadata and search systems, machine learning... then we should talk. We're also interested in speaking to prospective business development interns. Email me - andrew@timetric.com.

Out of curiosity have you developed your own time-series database to do the analysis ? - your api looks much nicer than other time-series databases like KX which I've used.

Thanks! Yes, we rolled our own - on top of Tokyo Tyrant (http://blog.timetric.com/2009/05/upgrading-the-timetric-back...).

I've just been having a play around with Timetric and it looks pretty neat.

I used to be the developer for Bloomberg's CIX (an excel like language for historical & real-time financial time-series calculations) so it's always interesting to see new people in the space :-)

I'm based in London as well, so if you'd fancy grabbing coffee or something sometime feel free to shoot me an email.

You have mail! (I hope.)

I'm a fourth year mechanical engineer located in Sydney, Australia. I like making things, either code based (eg, python, django, matlab) or mechanical based (eg, suspension systems). For any questions, reach me at p.ringwood@gmail.com.

Even though news.yc has a large slant on the northern hemisphere, I'm interested to see if there is much going in the southern hemisphere.

I hope it's OK to post this here, but I'm looking for an entry level position in the software industry myself. An internship would be great as well, especially if there's a possibility of getting hired full-time afterwards:

http://careers.stackoverflow.com/kyle

kyle.cronin@gmail.com

Snaptic is hiring interns and full time.

We build apps for Android / iPhone, and have shiny backend goodies.

#1 productivity app on Android, and TechCrunch/MobileCrunch named us(3banana) one of the top ten apps on Android.

We speak scala, Obj-C, java, python, Thrift, whatever gets the job down.

Please shoot us an email at hn@snaptic.com

Looking for folks to come hack with us in South Park, SF.

^down^done

We're hiring at Mixpanel (YC S09) - web analytics startup located in Mountain View, CA. You'd get to work on cool user-facing stuff that helps lots of other startups.

Email us at jobs@mixpanel.com, further details: http://mixpanel.com/jobs

We're looking for an intern to live in our guest room near Lake Tahoe and program. Email me at andrew@gaiagps.com.

You should like dogs and the outdoors, and expect little to no pay, beyond room and board. If you want to get here in the winter, that's fine too. The skiing is great.

I'm a CS/Economics student in Romania. I'll be graduating this summer and looking for an internship (remote would be great, but relocating is also an option). I have experience with python and various web frameworks (mainly Django and TurboGears, but I've enjoyed fooling around with Rails, Sinatra and web.py). I'm familiar with HTML/CSS and the HTTP. I'm completely self-taught in these technologies, but have also picked up some C and C++ from school.

I'm an opensource community guy, being a contributing member of various local FLOSS communities. I'm also a member of the Fedora Project, having contributed as a packager, web developer and participated in GSOC2009.

Seeking Co-founder for Flixa, a service to help independent filmmaker self-distribute their films online. Telecommute.

Look at my profile for more info.

EDIT: Also should mention I'm applying to YC, so if you wanted to do this but needed an idea here's your chance!

email sent.

Thanks for the interest. Email replied!

I'm a high school senior looking for a programming internship for the summer. I'm admittedly quite inexperienced(both in terms of hobbyist activities, having worked on no projects of any significant size, and in terms of work in the field, of which I have no experience yet), but I am a fast learner and a very hard worker when I have a project to work towards. I'd be happy to take either a paid or an unpaid internship, although unpaid internships could be a problem if they required me to relocate outside of Tennessee because I don't know that I could afford to find housing.

We're in Mountain View (SF Bay Area) looking for Rails/JRuby/Java coders, preferably folks who are okay with all three. I got hired with just Rails experience, so you might too if you're good :-)

If you've played with JRuby and have strong opinions on how Ruby and Java should integrate, that'd be a big plus.

This is usually a full-time job, with no problem with entry-level folk. But I'll bet we'd be happy to have an intern as well. I'll ask the guys at work :-)

It's a small programming team (about 8 full-time), but a very stable non-startup company. You won't get rich, but you'll have a lot of say in what we're doing.

We're hiring a bunch (interns and full-timers in search engineering, search tools, query intelligence) at AT&T Interactive (YellowPages.com) in Glendale CA. Email me for more info: astiles@attinteractive.com.

Junior in the CS program at the University of Arizona.

I love Python, can code well in Java, and am picking up C this semester. I like networking (I participate in a Networks Research Lab), finance, and all things grandiose and complicated. I need to get away from University jobs that entail plugging in cables or adding content to websites. I want to write production software. I'm free for this Summer and looking for an internship that's paid (or at least living expenses covered) and one that's hopefully outside the state of Arizona (or even the US! :).

Kevin Luikens (kluikens@gmail.com)

You should come to a Tucson Startup Drinks get together.

It's a combination of small business and startup business owners and employees in the Tucson area. There also tends to be a lot of like-minded students in attendance.

The google group is much more active than the website.

http://tucson.startupdrinks.com/

We (http://www.rethinkdb.com) are looking for summer interns for software engineering and business development. Software guys should have good knowledge of C/C++ and basic computer science, and have good problem solving skills. Biz dev guys should have lots of chutzpah.

We're offering extremely interesting and challenging problems (on both ends), and some pay. We nearly guarantee that you'll learn more in these three months than you have in any three months since you were five. Email us at founders@rethinkdb.com.

We're looking for either marketing or engineering interns to join Smarkets in London for a minimum of three months. Our front-end is Django and back-end Erlang with a nifty RESTful API.

http://smarkets.com

Smarkets is a simple and social place to bet online. Our tech team is top notch and we recently launched publicly. For more information: http://smarkets.com/about/internships/

Yelp's looking for coders in SF, both full-time and as summer interns: http://www.yelp.com/jobs

Submitted my resume (but forgot to attach cover letter, darn), thanks for the heads up! Seems like it'd be a cool place to work.

True Ventures is looking for interns graduating in 2011 or 2012 for our summer TEC program this summer in the Bay Area. As a member of our program, you will be paired with one of our companies and spend eight weeks working on a variety of projects both appropriate to your background and skillset and of value to the company. There is a stipend paid for the completion of the summer program.

Any options for students graduating this year, sounds like an amazing opportunity. I'd love to chat more, pjharrin [at] gmail d0t com

I'm experienced with a variety of technologies, although I'm currently most competent with python. I have a lot of experience doing web development and web-scraping/spidering in python.

I have the understanding of (X)HTML, CSS, javascript, and HTTP that comes with making web-apps in languages that aren't necessarily just beefed-up templating languages.

I also have working knowledge of C, and can read a smattering of other languages.

Extensive experience administering linux servers, minor (but growing) experience with BSD. Can work with windows.

I'm in NE Ohio. I'm open to remote work, or relocating, but am currently suffering from a bad case of brokeitis, so I would either need to be offered a relocation package, or work remotely for a month or two to acquire the necessary funds. Unless you're in NE Ohio, that is.

If you have any questions, would like to see an example of work I've done, or would like to contact me for any other reason, shoot me an email at jeremiah.dodds@gmail.com

I'm a senior at WPI, an ECE major. I also have a good CS background. I have experience with systems programming and software defined radio. For contact info and my CV check out: http://users.wpi.edu/~dkelly/

My first preference is to work in the New England area, but I'm open to anything.

I'd love to find a generalist who can try to find cool, scalable ways to help a rapidly growing, profitable company get really reliable, efficient, and secure. We're located right on Union Square in New York, and we specialize in the profitable parts of the music industry.

Oh, and this would be a paid, full-time job, not an internship.

contact information?

Sorry! Thought I'd updated my profile with it. Here's my work address: http://imgur.com/zEwd6.jpg

Mention hacker news in the subject.

I'm willing to hire an intern (or, ideally, recent grad/dropout). We're doing all sorts of cool stuff, from Machine Learning in Lisp, to a JS heavy website, to iPhone, Android, etc apps.

Incidentally, we're also looking for a marketing intern - but that's probably less interesting to the people here.

Strong preference for NYC. My email is in my profile.

Would the intern be working on Postabon?

Yep! There are a lot of exciting things happening with Postabon in the last few weeks (on both the business and tech sides) that I can't talk about publicly yet :-D But let's talk if you're interested in some details and think you might be a good fit.

Cool. Email sent.

We're looking for someone to do some high quality customer service, but that has a healthy understanding of IT (we sell IT products and services). Want to trial someone for a week or two first. (Unpaid) which then may move to part/full time paid. Would suit someone still studying.

We're also looking for anyone that'd be interested in Delphi.net coding, working under a senior developer (unpaid currently).

Actually. If you're looking for any kind of work where you can push your skill set and get a good reference, just email me at khuram@xs-pro.co.uk -- we're based in the UK but you can be based anywhere as we're do everything remotely.

PS. If i don't reply to you within two days, it may mean i havent received your email (aggressive spam filter) in which case, tweet me at twitter.com/KhuramMalik

Thank you.

LSE.ac.uk IS grad, LAMP, Mostly interested in business/marketing/managerial type of work on a technical project, or with at least some technical component. You'd be a fun, serious, results-oriented team that has an idea of what you want to achieve. I am not a designer, but we'd be focusing on good design/presentation as much as on you bottom line. Ideally, telecommuting for a non-US based comapany, some travel is fine especially if you are located on a tropical island ;).

Someday, I'd like to do "something" at the intersection of Technology/Travel/Health and Wellness/Sustainability just to help keep things nice while doing something fun.

PO Box: khalamx | abv.bg - Free Response!

I'm currently in my senior year at the University of Minnesota Duluth, finishing up my Computer Science degree. I really enjoy programming in general without an allegiance to any one particular language. The past two summers I've interned for IBM in Rochester MN. Right now, I'm looking for an entry level job in or around the Minneapolis area. I don't know if there's a big Minneapolis crowd on this site, but I thought I'd put myself out there if anyone is out there. My email is in my profile if anyone is interested.

I'm a sophomore CompSci and Econ major located in Silicon Valley (Santa Cruz, to be specific). I'm an experienced rails coder, and am also proficient in Obj-c, java (though I try to avoid it) and javascript. My most recent project was a classroom automation system with a ruby backend, a Qt-based touchscreen GUI and a Sproutcore web app, with everything stored in CouchDB. I'm looking for an interesting internship from mid-May to the end of August. I can be reached at mAwylde@wesleyan.edu (remove the A).

META: It'd probably be more helpful for this to show up in the fall instead of in the spring. Many students are extended (and accept) internship offers prior to the start of the Spring Semester.

Editted to add: This is is no way a complaint about this thread showing up now. I'll definitely be forwarding it along to folks I know here and do appreciate it. I'd just appreciate having two, one with the fall recruiting cycle and one with the spring.

This is true.

But some CS majors, like myself, are still free.

Agreed but I imagine there are some talented guys and girls out there who missed the traditional recruiting cycle.

The post was inspired by http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1089455

It's probably worth adding that I'm quite pleased with the internship offer I've been extended and that when I really would have appreciated it was during freshman/sophomore year when options were more limited.

I just think it'd probably help out the companies looking for interns (realistically, possible future hires) to get in early.

I'm a 4th-year Cognitive Science student in Vancouver who can handle average computing projects, including experience in python, pylab, and django. I'd like to stay in the Vancouver area as I have classes as well. I have an understanding of writing, human factors, and user-interface design. I also have focused knowledge in the fields of psychology, computer science, linguistics, philosophy, and biology. (I like being a generalist).

Send me an email.

I'm currently a senior math major at Emory College, looking for an interesting entry-level job or an internship with the possibility of being hired afterwards. I've taught myself C, Python, ObjC, and Mathematica; I'm very fond of learning new things and I don't mind teaching myself when I need to. I want to do something new and challenging. I don't mind moving to another location. My e-mail address is in my profile.

If you want to intern at a rapidly-growing startup, whatever you're skill set, there may be a position for you at CarWoo! Email me if you're interested.

I'm a graduate student at RIT and I'm looking for an internship where I can work on computer graphics from the mathematical/programming side. Most of my experience is with C/C++ and OpenGL. Currently I'm working on Renderman shaders for a black hole visualization project.

If anyone is looking for an intern to do some work with graphics let me know at jxl6110 _at_ rit _dot_ edu .

I can start in March and work through the end of summer.

I'm a semester away from graduating with a computer science degree in the Los Angeles area. I'm looking for any positions available that can be contract based and remotely worked (although I would be willing to come in for any any meetings here and there) I have programming experience for over 5 years, and currently do freelance web development. My email is: topqadmin [at] gmail [dot] com

Currently looking for work in the Toronto area so that I can move back. Though I'm not looking for an internship, I'll throw my hat in since people seem to be pimping non-internship jobs too. Actual experience with Java/Groovy/Perl/C, non-work experience with Python/C++/PHP4/awk/etc. Very mild experience with Cocoa/ObjC/OpenGL. (Practically entry-level as I only have ~1 year of experience)

bsandrow@gmail.com

We're looking for full time paid summer interns in the Cleveland area. Looking mostly for programmers, but if you're a marketing person with a hacker-oriented outlook, shoot me an email (included on my profile). We can fly you out here and help you find summer housing. We're looking for folks with backgrounds (or willingness to learn) python, actionscript, or general web dev prowess.

I'm a graduating Economics student in Canada, looking to move to the bay area. Entrepreneurship experience, getting involved in coding more currently taking my 2nd coding class (with plans to take more in the future). Lots of extracurricular experience, including putting a TEDx event together in February. Looking for entry level in marketing, QA or project management.

I'm going to school in Bellevue, WA (north-east side, bordering Redmond). I'm interested in part-time work at the moment and full-time when the semester is over. My top two languages are Python and PHP, though I'm proficient in C/C++ and Java and I can read Lisp pretty easily. Most of my experience is in web apps and simple 2D video games.

Manymoon is hiring full-time engineers (http://bit.ly/9sdEmA) and an intern (http://bit.ly/b8yE8N).

We're a small, funded startup in San Francisco that's already generating revenue. Manymoon is also a top-rated application for Google Apps.

Please contact jobs@manymoon.com

I'm a junior/CS major at Wesleyan University looking for a paid internship in the northeast.

My current big project is in Rails, but I'd be happy to be doing pretty much any startup-related development/UI design. (I also know Python/Java well, and I've done work in Haskell, Scala, and a lot of other things.)

samdk.com

mail name: sam, domain: defabbiakane.com

Academia.edu is looking for developer interns in our San Francisco office:

http://academia.edu/jobs/developer_intern

We value enthusiasm, motivation and curiosity over experience in our interns, and we give you challenging projects to work on.

I'm a fourth year bioengineering major @ UCLA looking to switch fields into something more hacker - User exp. design or simply coding. Have done some coursework in C++/run a website w/ drupal @ www.bruinco.com. Would love to work an internship in Bay Area or LA.

Are there companies here who are looking for marketing interns that embody the hacking lifestyle?

Yes, shoot me an email if you're interested.

Sure, shoot me an email if you're interested. I checked out your blog, and you're actually dealing with quite a few of the marketing challenges that we're facing in the educational market.

The comment about marketing to students: "Marketing to college students is like being in marketing boot camp. You deal with one of the most distracted audiences and if you get them to do stuff you're good" seems to ring true for me.

Also, I liked your idea for online social marketing for Universities to students. It's an interesting concept, I wonder if it will bear fruit.

I couldn't find a way to contact you from your sites. Could you put up your contact info?

BackType is looking for interns (San Francisco): http://backtype.theresumator.com/apply/F38wS3/

More info here: http://www.backtype.com/jobs

I'm a freshman majoring in CS at Wisconsin-Madison looking for an internship this summer. I'm experienced in Ruby/Rails and PHP, and I have some experience in Clojure and Java. Location isn't too important. My email is rjsmith9@wisc.edu

UK, graduate mathematician from Imperial College London looking for entry level position. Specialise in machine learning, financial mathematics, programming: C, C++, Python, Matlab. Contact for CV: dmn001 <AT> gmail.com

ProcrasDonate: Boston, MA startup looking for technical teammate, though will take anyone with passion (sales, community building, PR, etc)

http://ProcrasDonate.com

django, python, javascript<---for real

We're hiring devs (paid, full time) at graduate level in London we're working on Mobile payments, SMS, MMS VoIP

http://www.mxtelecom.com/uk/careers/roles/softdev

CS Junior at Worcester Polytechnic Institute looking for a web development internship in the Boston area. Skilled in Python, Django, Java, Linux and more. Email bmcloughlin@wpi.edu for a resume.

Track.com is looking for a summer intern or two with a CS background and some web development experience. Django experience is a plus. Based in Manhattan. Contact rich@ if interested.

Brooklyn, NY - we're always looking for interns with development, design or marketing backgrounds.

http://www.ad60.com/jobs/

What kind of company are you? Are internships paid? I'm in the NY area.

my company is looking to hire at least 1 intern for the summer, paid. It's a media monitoring mature startup located in the NOVA/DC area. You'd be working on the team that builds the system that gathers the data. It's all Java. So if you like data mining massive amounts of data on the web, you should send an email to djb.email@gmail.com. I'm not making any hiring decisions but I'll pass it along to someone who is.

bit.ly is looking for dev interns in NYC this summer.

If you're ambitious, curious, and like the idea of big data and high traffic volumes, drop us a line at jobs @ bit.ly

Think is hiring in Palo Alto.

http://www.thinkcomputer.com/corporate/jobs/

We're working on mobile payments.

I am looking for a UI developer as intern in Mumbai, India. Skills required are graphics design, photoshop, HTML, CSS and javascript.

Connect with me on LinkedIn.

I'm graduating from CMU with Cognitive Science + HCI this semester; looking for entry-level jobs in FE engineering, Rails.

More info + links on profile.

I just graduated college and am looking for an entry level job or internship in front-end design (CSS/HTML/JS/PHP/MySQL).

jfornear@smu.edu

We're looking for interns to do Android and iPhone development. Pay. Philadelphia only. Email me at creed@audiofy.com

We're looking for an Android developer in Lincoln, Nebraska. We want to port our iPhone apps to Android.

This might be more useful as a gdoc of some sort (similar to the call for cofounders from a while back?)

Crazy but I'll give it a shot: We're looking for someone..... in Jordan

If you're around, drop me an email :) We want you!

We are looking for interns in nyc to help develop/market our alternative to affiliate programs

Facebook: www.facebook.com/careers . You can also shoot me a resume.

email?

indigoviolet@gmail.com

We're looking for an intern eager to learn Ruby in the Miami area. Should be a hacker type and know at least one computer language in-depth. We're paying a modest stipend monthly $1,000.00 - eric@w3matter.com

Your front page is missing two "."s, which is ironic considering that you use "Period" as a sentence. Hope this helps.

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