I went through a Shopee Internship, here's everything you need to know.
For context, I was a former intern at Shopee. I wont reveal when and at what department for privacy purposes.
The What:
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Applying is pretty straightforward. Shopee has 2 main internship programs. BAU and AP.
BAU Internship
- BAU is essentially the year-round internship program. This is always open and is subject the availability of slots depending on the department. It usually lasts for 3-4 months, where you can extend if you want to. Usually, Shopee hires interns when the current batch is about to graduate so they would have replacements.
- You will mostly handle administrative tasks and support your team in day to day operations.
- Workload largely depends on your manager on how much work they're going to give you per week.
- You are paid close to minimum wage per day.
AP Internship / Apprentice Program
- AP is essentially a more leveled up internship compared to BAU. It opens every year around mid December and applications ends around late February.
- The difference here is that on top of administrative tasks, you're going to be assigned one main project that you're going to do throughout the internship, where your manager/mentor would help you throughout the way and it will end in presenting your project to local or foreign stakeholders.
- If you succeed in this internship you would most likely be fast-tracked (meaning ur a priority or a target) for their management trainee (MT) programs. These MT programs give you the cream of the crop locally when it comes to compensation, other Reddit users have said that these pay at range of about 70-100k a month. These MT programs also expose you to upper management.
- Pay is higher compared to BAU.
The How:
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BAU Internship
- you can simply apply here: 2026 Shopee Philippines Internship - Shopee & Monee Programmes - Manila - Shopee Careers
- what did my resume look like when I applied?
- from big 4 university
- magna standing + dost scholar
- experience | 1 course "experience" where we collaborated with an ngo to make something
- experience | 2 low-level officership positions in orgs
- projects | 2 course projects
- resume template?
https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/jakes-resume/syzfjbzwjncs
this is using latex, you can edit it by making a free account in overleaf, if you don't know latex you can chatgpt or gemini the code to format it to your liking
- application process was -> apply to website -> someone will call/message you via sms for interview -> do interview with hr -> another interview with hiring manager -> internship offer
AP Internship
- you can follow the shopee careers fb page | Shopee Apprentice Program also for more context
- application process was -> apply to website -> they will send you a link to assessment (this assessment is challenging (CET level) please review well on math, logical thinking, behavioral) -> hr interview -> business manager interview -> team leader interview
- usually there's a business case you have to solve here during the application process not sure which stage.
- i'll say this is much more competitve historically speaking they get 30-40ish people each year, you're up against hundred or a thousand+ of applications.
The Experience:
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- Shopee is a good working environment for interns. Experience varies, and is dependent on your manager for workload and schedule. For example: if you're manager is nice they can give you less work if you inform them you have exams upcoming.
- Schedule is strict when it comes to x3 F2F per week at the Ortigas office, WFH experience depends on your manager if they will give you work or not. You can take online classes at the office and at your desk.
- Working hours is normally 10am-7pm, this is not super strict though, if for example you get to office at 10:30 just compensate for the hours and go home a bit later and you are fine.
- Pay is per hour you clocked in.
- Work wise, as an intern don't expect to be given the same responsibilities as a full-time hire. Access to internal tools should be at an intern level, and don't expect to be given work that can potentially cost the company if you mess up. Interns are expected to learn and immerse themselves in the working environment and support the team.
Some nuances I'd like to bring up:
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- Shopee, like other MNCs are biased towards UP, ADMU, and DLSU. During my stay I had not met any interns outside from this circle. Does this mean they exclusively hire interns from these universities? No. But you have to pull your credentials more to get in and showcase you got the skills and what it takes. However, please note the advantage for these universities is mostly applied during these internships and fresh grads. I've met great, skilled regular hires not from these univeristies during my internship.
- While being the leading e-commerce platform in the country, tech-wise it's not state of the art as you would expect, everything is still done through Google sheets, docs, powerpoints.
- We also frequently collaborate with other regions such as Taiwan, other SEA countries. Expect there will be times where you need to speak with foreign people. Shopee does treat their interns as regular hires, but it does not give them regular hire responsibility if that make sense. You won't see yourself being someone who makes coffee for the team or prints papers, etc.
Is Shopee for you?
- If you ultimately want the name of the leading e-commerce platform in the Philippines on your resume, go for it. While 3 days F2F, 10am-7pm is hard to do for 3-4 consecutive months while balancing normal academic workload and work can sometimes be boring and repetitive. The importance is you immerse yourself in the working environment as a preview to your adult life. See how your team works, ask them questions, etc. In my experience, Shopee will open doors to other MNCs and makes applying much more easier, since they know you got vetted by them.
If y'all got any questions, go lang! Hope this helps.
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