Making The Most of Your Summer Internship (Fall 2015)

These are the Slides from a Presentation I gave at Stanford about making the most of your summer internship as part of their Career skills workshop series.

Transcript

1. Making the Most of Your Summer Internship Jonathan Maltz (you can call me Maltz) @maltzj or maltz@yelp.com
2. Hi! I’m Maltz • I Build Android apps at Yelp Eat24 • I’ve Been ‘Droid building for 2 years • Big Hello Kitty fan • Bigger fan of mentoring at hackathons
3. Hi! I’m Maltz
4. Yelp’s Mission: Connecting people with great local businesses.
5. Yelp Stats: As of Q2 2015 83M 32 68% 83M
6. Why am I here today?
8. 1. Personal growth 3 to Having a Successful Internship 2. Knowing what you want out of a full time position 3. Having a great time
10. Personal Growth
11. Antipattern Alert
12. In it for the full time offer Isaac
13. Why is this bad?
14. Let’s talk about bowling dude
15. How to think about skill growth
16. • Have Design Reviews ◦ Have to explain yourself a lot? Reflect on why. ◦ Preemptively clarify • Write documentation Communication Skills
17. Aside on your mentor
18. Aside on your mentor
19. Aside on your mentor Teaching Doing
20. Technical Skills • Try to never make the same mistake twice • Find really successful people, ask them what they read • Ask about words you don’t understand
21. Workflow Skills • Automate as much as possible ◦ If something bothers you, make it easier • See something cool? Ask about it. • Learn your tools well
23. Understand what you want when you graduate
25. What the heck does he mean by culture?
26. What Culture Isn’t What Culture Is Do I get free lunch? How do people communicate about issues? How is the office decorated? When I have a problem, how does it get resolved? Are there Yoga Classes? How much effort do we put into mentoring? Other benefits / perks How much autonomy is given to me?
27. How do I know “good culture” from “bad culture”?
28. Frustration Principle
29. Antipattern Alert
30. Always with her team Anna
31. Why is this bad?
32. 1. Lose out on learning opportunities
33. 2. Never know if your problems/successes are unique
34. The simple guide to meeting anyone 1. Find someone who knows something you’re curious about 2. Schedule 30 minutes to talk to that person 3. Be punctual 4. Ask the questions you’re curious about. a. “What do you do here?” is totally valid
36. Have a great time
37. Intern programs are awesome
38. Antipattern Alert
39. Overworked Oscar
40. But I need a full-time offer
41. But I need a full-time offer
42. What happens when you join full-time?
43. Questions?
44. @YelpEngineering YelpEngineers engineeringblog.yelp.com github.com/yelp