Internship

[n04h]

Hey guys, So anyways I live in a fairly small town and there is one computer company here. I also seem to have a lot of time on my hands so I thought "why not apply for a internship" and now I would just like to know if any of you have done something like this and what I should do to prepare.

[Jackolantern]

Typically most internships are worked out through a university, but it is worth a shot. The reason for this is because most companies offer internships so that they have an opportunity to see how the intern works, and can offer them a full-time job if they do well (also trying to pick up the best of the best entry-level workers for cheap in the process). So typically interns are near the end of their higher education so that by the end of the internship they will be ready to potentially go to work for the company. It is not strictly just about teaching someone the ropes of a job. Both sides can benefit from the internship, but if you are not in a position to be hired at the end of the internship, the company really doesn't stand to gain much.

[n04h]

I am in a really small town so there are no universities around + a freind of mine who is a senior in highschool has a job there full time. As for pay I was going to do the job for free, so its like slave labour for them anyway thanks for the Info.

[Jackolantern]

Ahh, I thought you meant like a software development company. What kind of work do they do?

[Chris]

I'm just after doing half a year internship. It's messed up how much time it takes up and how little you get payed. But I did learn lots and it was lots of fun getting to work with other programmers.

If you want to learn lots I'd defiantly recommend going for a smaller company with about 40 - 50 workers. Then you aren't just another number and are actually expected to do stuff so you actually learn something. Most important is not to go thinking you know everything, there was another intern where I was, that was the way he came and after a week was told to leave after making a simple form that got injected and messed up the entire database server.

It's also good for learning how to work in groups if you land in the right company, I learned how to work with Scrum, which is really efficient when it comes to managing large projects. We managed to get a very large scale video decoder/encoder system set up in 2 months, as well as a TLD registration system which I got to be the manager and main programmer in