Everything you think you know about tech internships is wrong.

Before COVID, landing a tech internship was always THE way to launch a career in software engineering. Today, things have changed. Massive shifts in remote work, online education, and the global economy have made things a lot more uncertain for both aspiring interns and employers. During this session, Swift will share insights from running the largest community of early career developers in the world, and lessons learned from teaming up with GitHub to reimagine the future of tech internships.

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1. Everything you think you know about tech internships is wrong.
2. They call me Swift • CEO & Co-Founder of Major League Hacking (MLH). • Aspiring lawyer who became a hacker instead. • Empowering hackers for 10 years now. swift@mlh.io @SwiftAlphaOne
3. Learning to code is like getting from zero to one. MLH helps developers get from one to a job. The MLH Fellowship is the best thing that happened to me and my career Yashika Sharma @yashika51 MLH helped me become a better engineer than any internship or school ever could. Brandon Barker @projectbarks MLH taught me skills that set me apart from my peers & led to an amazing job at Microsoft! Emily Huang @huang-emily The skills & network I gained through MLH helped me land a great job at IBM. Nigel Brown @pnbrown Summer 2020 was one of the most life changing experiences for me thanks to MLH. Jessie Nguyen @jessie_anh_ng
4. 40,000 + Lost Internships
5. What do tech internships look like in the post-COVID world?
6. → First Job School
7. Education is hard. Technical education is harder.
8. Coding is more art than science.
9. → → ??? First Job School
10. → → Internships First Job School
11. Projects Management Mentorship Experiences Sourcing Screening Hard to Scale +
12. Resume filters don’t work when there’s nothing on your resume.
13. ??? School → → → Internships First Job
14. M O T I V A T I O N ?
15. Hackathons School → → → Internships First Job
17. ALL LOVE HACKATHONS & MANY MORE Companies also figured out that hackathons are pretty awesome.
18. Hackathons != Production
19. Internships ??? Hackathons First Job School → → → →
20. Internships Open Source Hackathons First Job School → → → →
21. 73 % of hackers want to contribute to Open Source but don’t know how.
22. → → ??? First Job School
23. Challenges In-Person Time Intensive Expensive Difficult Hard to Scale
24. Challenges In-Person Time Intensive Expensive Difficult Hard to Scale
26. Real world projects, expert mentorship, & a strong community.
27. 30,000 + Developers Applied
29. Thanks, Happy Hacking! swift@mlh.io @SwiftAlphaOne