Cs Student Not Getting Internships

Very good post. my kid is just going to college. I am from CS. but studied in india. it was different when i was studying. just wanted to brainstorm on senior parents too.

my friends kids in india, are not so worried about internships. instead they are trying to participate in Algorithm competitions like Top coder , Open source contributions. not all kids but some. Some are even pairing together to make some apps to improve their resumes.

Is internship a real important activity here in USA colleges. how does kids from other majors handle here like Bio-medical engineering , mechanical . does picking a job from craiglist for very less price helps.

 

Internship is very important here in college. Even high school juniors/seniors do internships to get good colleges. It helps to land a job after graduation. Usually during junior year most of the kids will be doing internships. Some will do co-op jobs during college(skipping a semester or two). Internships are not easy nowadays. Kids have to work hard to get an internship. From freshman year they can start applying by going to career fairs. I don't think Craigslist jobs will add value to their resume. I may be wrong not sure.

 

thanks. it helps, brainstorming. it is a whole cultural change for me to understand how different it is for fresher to join work force here.

 

Somehow i do not buy this. and this is only for Computer science. Reason. I was a house wife in usa for 5 yrs after my first kid. So with 0 experience i had secured a job. It was 2009 recession.

I have seen interns hired for internship, i cannot say for big 4 . but for mid size companies, they document most of the time. very rarely they are allowed to touch the code.

Main issue will be he, has work little hard and smart to build a portfolio for himself. like a Github to show his work.

freshers are expected.

a. Good in Algorithms and DS. -- good site to compete and show
SRM Overview
b. Fair or Ok in System design
GitHub - systemdesignfightclub/SDFC

Last , what is he interested in
a. Web development
1. front end
2. backend
b. Mobile
1. ios dev
2. andriod
3. javascript frameworks
c. Data Science
a. he can check --> Kaggle: Your Machine Learning and Data Science Community
d. may be more - i do not know

First 2 , he can pick 1 . Make a very simple app/ site in App store or Cloud. He is ahead of many 2 - 3 yrs developers with experience. even devs with lot of experience, do not get chance to work in all parts of developments.
coding
design
deployment and hosting.

Most important he should showcase his work in Github .

As a worker, i assure you there are 100s of companies. If you are only looking to be hired for big companies. it is tricky . but lot of companies small ones, want people to productive asap.

1. here are some groups where they refer to interviews.

SDE Skills

Job search

Linkedin . he can stalk lot of senior engineers or recruiters and show case his work. to get interview referrals.

 

lot depends on what he wants to work. my Dh used to tell. in 2001 in india. one of his friends wanted to be gamedeveloper. there were literally 1% jobs. that kid used to build games and in interview he showed this work.

i feel it is still the same. since when ever i am changing jobs. recruiters do not even touch my resume if it does not reflect what the market needs. i have to catch up prepare and modify resume just to get interview.