GoDaddy

The Sunnyvale office is awesome: free catered lunch, snacks, and drinks for days!

There's an opportunity for leadership even as an intern, and free trips to the company headquarters in Arizona to meet and hear from company execs.

Flexible team, ability to work from home, and the ability to choose your own projects/tasks.

The team was a bit new to interns and what we were capable of, and it took a while (half of my internship) to really find tasks that were most appropriate to me.

Development cycles, at least in my team, were fast but a bit too heavy on the planning.

Spotty integration with the engineers themselves.

Take more initiative in fleshing out what an internship should look like before the intern arrives. This includes defining:

• What type of problems they should have.
• What sort of projects are appropriate.
• A timeline of tasks/bugs to get familiar with the codebase.

Whether the internship is well-suited for a potential intern is his/her decision to make. However, an undefined internship will leave too many open ends that end up not helping either side.