Making The Most of Your Summer Internship (Fall 2016)

This is a copy of the talk I gave on Making The Most of Your Summer Internship at Hack The North in Spring 2016.

1. Making the Most of Your 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. Yelp’s Mission: Connecting people with great local businesses.
4. Yelp Stats As of Q2 2016 92M 32 72% 108M
5. Why am I here today?
7. 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
9. Personal Growth
10. How to think about skill growth
11. • May be the most important skill • Have Design Reviews ◦ Preemptively clarify • Write documentation Communication Skills
12. 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
13. Workflow Skills • Automate as much as possible ◦ If something bothers you, make it easier • Learn your tools well • See something cool? Ask about it. • Take time for this everyday
14. Aside on your mentor
15. Aside on your mentor
16. Aside on your mentor Teaching Doing
17. 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 • Communication • Technical • Workflow
19. Understand what you want when you graduate
21. What the heck does he mean by culture?
22. 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?
23. How do I know “good culture” from “bad culture”?
24. Frustration Principle
25. Antipattern Alert
26. Always with her team Anna
27. Why is this bad?
28. 1. Lose out on learning opportunities
29. 2. Never know if your problems/successes are unique
30. 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
31. 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 • Communication • Technical • Workflow • Culture ◦ Frustration Principle • Meet People!
33. Have a great time
34. Working in a major hub is awesome
35. Antipattern Alert
36. Overworked Oscar
37. But I need a full-time offer
38. But I need a full-time offer
39. What happens when you join full-time?
40. 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 • Communication • Technical • Workflow • Culture ◦ Frustration Principle • Meet People! • Intern Programs • Work sustainably
41. Questions?
42. @YelpEngineering fb.com/YelpEngineers engineeringblog.yelp.com github.com/yelp