[LRUG] Running tech internships in startups, and doing it fairly

[Murray Steele]

On 1 June 2012 09:24, Chris Adams <mail at chrisadams.me.uk> wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> Apologies if this is off-topic. I'm totally happy to take this convo
> elsewhere if it's beyond the remit of LRUG here.
>
> I was at Silicon Milkroundabout last week, and I met a number of really
> bright young people who are either halfway through their degrees, or
> looking for internships to gain a degree of experience and exposure to
> working in a tech startup, rather than immediate employment (either they
> don't feel   inexperienced enough to apply for full-time positions, or they
> want to test the waters first).
>
> We've been looking at running an internship programme over here at AMEE,
> and while there's no shortage of practices to structure an internship
> around for interested young engineers (for example pairing exercises,
> seeing how releases are planned and features, and tracking deployment
> afterwards), but the main thing stopping us has been struggling to find
> specific guidance on how to do it *fairly*.
>

We've run an intern program at Unboxed for the past 2 years and are doing
it again this year, so I might be able to shed some light on what we've
done (good and bad).  Before I do though, what exactly do you mean by
"fairly"?


> Anyone here in small companies have run something similar successfully,
> with a specific tech/engineering focus here?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chris
>
>
>
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