A developer shares the story and exact email that landed their first tech internship, offering a personal look at breaking into the industry.
A software engineer reflects on formative internships at Corel and OTI/IBM, working on Linux, Wine, .NET, and the Eclipse SWT toolkit.
A retrospective look at the 2005 Fog Creek documentary 'Aardvark'd', featuring early interviews with tech luminaries like Paul Graham and the reddit founders.
A guide for college students on the benefits and application process for Google Summer of Code (GSoC), an open-source software development program.
A V8 developer discusses recent performance improvements in V8 6.3, including work on lazy deoptimization and optimizing Object constructor calls from webpack.
A developer shares lessons learned from applying to and joining iHub, a tech innovation hub, covering networking, cover letters, and interview tips.
A blog post sharing the author's cover letter for an internship at iHub Research, focusing on their interest in automating hate speech detection using AI and NLP.
A personal account of securing a tech internship at iHub, focusing on the application process and the project that sparked interest.
A developer reflects on the real stories behind CV entries, like an unpaid internship spent pitching buggy software, highlighting the gap between resume bullet points and actual experience.
Developer shares excitement about a summer internship at Quora, focusing on migrating the site to PyPy and performance tuning.
A Microsoft intern shares highlights from their summer, including team work, access to software builds, and meeting tech legends.
A candidate shares their detailed experience interviewing for a Microsoft internship, covering phone screening and an in-person technical interview in Warsaw.
