Name: [Part 7] Meta Intern Success Series - Succeeding As A Remote Intern
Uploaded: 2022-07-14
Duration: 7 min 27 s
Description: Learning speed is severely nerfed by remote work, which is awful for you as an intern since this is when learning speed

[Part 7] Meta Intern Success Series - Succeeding As A Remote Intern

- Learning speed is severely nerfed by remote work, which is awful for you as an intern since this is when learning speed is the most important. It's important to keep this mind as you navigate your internship.
- Attend all team events, even the less formal ones (i.e. non-offsite) like team lunch. It's extremely important to build relationships and social capital in this environment where everyone is more isolated.
- Have 2 to 3 1:1s with your non-intern manager peers.
- Match the working hours of your team if you're in different time zones. It's absolutely vital that you always get blocked ASAP, and this is way harder when you're operating on a different time scale. This could be painful, but it will be worth it.
- Do virtual coworking whenever you can. The idea is that everyone joins a video call and just works, no meeting agenda or anything. The idea is to mimic an in-person working environment as much as possible. This creates peer pressure for you to be productive and makes it seamless for you to ask for help (just say something on the call!).

Learning speed is severely nerfed by remote work, which is awful for you as an intern since this is when learning speed 

An internship is a period of work experience offered by an organization for a limited period of time. In software, a software engineer intern tends to have stronger importance with more competitive pay and real projects to work on.

A successful software engineer intern needs to know how to onboard, work with their manager, write good code, and communicate their projects well.

A software engineer intern can learn valuable introductory knowledge at a tech company

Meta Platforms, Inc. is an American multinational technology conglomerate based in Menlo Park, California. The company owns 3 of top 4 social networks in the world: Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. More than 3.5 billion people use at least one of the company's core products every month.