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Kind of ridiculous IMO that Google does not extend offers before leaving the internship. In cases like this, it really does not make sense.

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In that midpoint form I mention there's a box you can tick if you want to do "conversion" interviews at the end of your internship. Since I still have two more years of uni I didn't tick that box.

IMHO you're on the right track. Just try to get some fun while you're in the university because you ain't gonna find that environment (parties, girls, friends, etc.) elsewhere. Even if you do find something similar, sure as hell won't be the same.

> university because you ain't gonna find that environment

It's also hard to make absurd amounts of cash having fun during university too (well, at least it's like that in the US).

Agreed. Don't let uni just be a gateway to employment. It's also a really good young adult experience where you can form social networks trivially easy that will serve you well into the future. It's your last hurrah of the innocence of no constant commitments and obligations before fulltime work too.

I believe the OP is a first year CS student, so a full time offer probably didn't make sense.

It does. All interns that receive good evaluation feedback are offered to transition into full-time employees and this transition may not even require interview loop.

It always requires a partial interview loop (the "conversion" interviews) now; they changed it in the last year or two.

Nah, 2 or more time interns (only in the US, at the moment? Wasn't the case in Sydney, but was for a friend in Seattle) can get a FTE role if they have really good feedback from t heir internships.

If so, it's not publicized internally. I interned at Google this summer too, and I didn't hear anything about how I could bypass conversion interviews. Maybe it's a case-by-case discretion thing.

I /think/ (with only anecdata) that this only comes up when you try to convert.

I can confirm this, 2 time intern in the US then London who a full time SWE offer with no conversion interviews.

Not sure how it works in Europe but in Silicon Valley, many companies.

Especially if someone is not a senior. (American slang for a student in their final year)

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