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Summer Internships - The Good, and the Bad?
loquacious d asks: "This has been a spectacular summer for open-source student internships. Google funded a huge variety of open-source projects through the Summer of Code, including GCC-CIL and other improvements to Mono, new features and fixes for Gaim, and even new packages for Common Lisp. Joel Spolsky at Fog Creek hired four interns to produce a highly modified version of VNC called Fog Creek Copilot, and Paul Graham's new venture capital firm Y Combinator helped students create their own tech companies. What internships did people enjoy this summer, and which ones didn't work out so well? Which ones would you recommend to next year's applicants, and which should they avoid?"
You didn't know?
95% of their software is written by interns, 4% of their software actually works.
I think we can keep recursing like this until someone returns 1
The ugly: not getting an internship at all. Unless you're female or an underrepresented minority (black, hispanic), getting a science/engineering internship is hard. That's on top of the fact that most companies weren't hiring much at all, interns or fulltime employees. Hopefully next year will be better for those of us who lucked out this summer.
Actually, that would be a perfectly acceptable colloquialism in Texas...
SIGSEGV caught, terminating
wait... not that kind of sig.