How can I receive a return offer as a "superstar" intern?
Software Engineering Intern at Samsaraa year ago
Samsara’s a great company, so I would love to receive a return offer and be regarded as a "superstar" intern. What high-level tips do you have to accomplish this?
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(1 comment)- a year agoRobinhood, Meta, Course Hero, PayPal
- Be open, honest, and transparent with your intern mentor - Be comfortable being vulnerable, and aggressively use their time to solve issues and unblock yourself. We talk about this in-depth here: You Should Be Vulnerable With Your Manager
- Set clear expectations - Work with your mentor to figure out exactly what needs to be delivered in order to meet the return offer bar. Learn how to do that with this video: Avoid This Performance Review Death Trap - Creating An Expectations Plan
- Keep your eye on the code - Intern is the stage in a SWE career where coding is the most important. A lot of interns understand that volume is important, but a lot also forget that quality is important as well. Push to write beautiful code that's a joy to go over in code review for your teammates. We gave a masterclass on that here: [Masterclass] How To Write Better Code Faster As A Software Engineer
Related resources:
- [Taro Top 10] Succeeding As A Software Engineer Intern
- [Taro Top 10] Junior Engineer To Mid-Level Engineer (L3 To L4) - At Meta, interns needed to be hitting most L4 (mid-level) engineer expectations in order to qualify for a rockstar offer (just ~5% of interns got this rating). Use this playlist to understand what those L4 expectations are
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