r/internships

I manage to secure an Applied AI intern position for Fall 2026 at the Canadian Space Agency (government affiliated) and also Huawei. I'm debating between the two and I don't know which one to choose. What are your thoughts?

Hi i just need a little reassurance i guess i m going into my second year at Bocconi and I didn’t manage to secure an internship this summer. I feel like i m miles behind everyone else and i will be jobless. I know i m probably exaggerating but i am so overwhelmed :(

I need some advice about my internship.

I signed a four month internship agreement until the end of August. It's not a university requirement, I'm just doing it to gain experience.

The problem is that my family will most likely be travelling abroad for the entire month of August. The trip hasn't been booked yet, but they're definitely planning to go.

I'm not sure what the best approach is. Should I ask if I can take leave for the whole month? Should I ask if I can finish the internship at the end of July instead?

To be honest, I wouldn't mind finishing a month early because I feel like I've already learned a lot and I'm starting to feel burned out from the internship. But I'm worried that asking to end it early would come across as unprofessional or leave a bad impression. I dont even know if it's allowed.

My parents suggested that I extend the internship until November to make up for the time away, but I really don't want to do that. I'd much rather finish by the end of August if possible.

Also, should I discuss this with my manager first or go to HR?

I'd really appreciate any advice

I got an informal call 3 weeks ago from the manager who interviewed me saying they are moving forward with my application. The call was more personal, with him checking that I will take the opportunity and ensure my spot in the program, trying to confirm numbers. He said that in the next week or so (cant really remember the specific wording) I will get further information about the acceptance. It has been 3 weeks and Ive heard nothing. I also feel like I cant really contact the company bc the call felt a bit "off-the-books" and i also don't wanna seem impatient. I also only have his personal phone number, not email, and it feels unprofessional to contact that personal number again. Any assistance on what to do next is much appreciated!

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I had a summer internship like role at a university lab doing robotics and computer vision but the official title of the job was just undergraduate research assistant. Will I be okay changing the title to something like robotics intern or computer vision intern? I'm assuming an intern role in the resume is more appealing than research assistnat for future internship opportunities at real companies but let me know if I am wrong and it doesn't matter taht much. Also will it be better to have the place of work be the name of the lab if the university is not that prestigious?

Current college student working with a bank for the summer, today I overslept my last meeting for the day and I feel awful.

Throughout my time at this bank, I’ve been asking detailed questions in all meetings and engaging with the content. We have a group project and I’m doing a lot of great work with that.

Immediately when I saw the time I called my manager and apologized, owning up to my mistakes and not giving any excuses. They were frustrated as expected, and didn’t really want to hear me out. I feel so stressed and can’t stop thinking about it.

I’ve really been on my best behavior throughout this program. There have only been two instances where I feel like my manager and I didn’t see eye-to-eye, but I fixed both situations promptly.

1. On my first day she thought I wasn’t doing any work on our modules, I immediately followed up and sent her a screenshot of my completed module. She had checked her system earlier and it didn’t update my progress, and since then I’ve reached out whenever I complete a project ensuring that my progress is the same on her end.
2. Joined a morning meeting 1 minute late. I owned up and have been early to everything else.

We have the opportunity to interview for a position next year if she approves us, but at this moment I feel like the sleep thing cooked me. I’m gonna keep joining meetings early & asking questions during sessions etc, however I feel very bad about this whole situation :(

Is there any possibility that I could be upgraded to Junior Level and get the junior level salary?

How do the companies usually consider it?

I'm currently pursuing a BCA.

I know Java, FastAPI, React, Node.js, Docker, CI/CD, Git and AWS basics and have also built 2 full-stack projects.

What would you recommend I focus on to maximize my chances of getting internships?

Should I:

• Learn more DSA?
• Build better projects?
• Get AWS certifications?
• Learn Kubernetes?
• Contribute to open source?
• Focus on networking and referrals?

I'd appreciate advice from students and professionals who recently secured internships.

Hey guys!

I'm a rising junior in high school and was wondering if it's really possible to get an internship as a high schooler. I'm genuinely passionate about tech and computer science and have a good 5-6 years of experience with programming. I have a good GitHub portfolio with projects as well.

Is there any way to get an internship at a startup or a company this summer or in the upcoming months? Should I try cold-emailing companies? Does anybody have an internship experience in high school? What are your views?

Thank you!

Hlw ppl:) I'm 19

Just finished my 2 months of internship yesterday, going back home n desperately missing that beautiful place n some ppl i met there....

idk im getting so emotional while returning...

Overall, it was such a great experience at one of my dream places, but life will again get back to boring days and ikk I won't be as happy n free as I was during my internship tenure...

However, I'm trying to hold myself n just survive somehow by the time I achieve my goals... ig life wud he sorted then but yeess happiness is an illusion which im chasing rn :( idk if I need a shoulder to cry on or just wait n watch how things take turns in my life....

if uh hv anything to say or suggest, I'd really appreciate that!

Can you guys tell me your most embarrassing moment at your internship? Today I invited a bunch of people to go to a cafe and hang out and I asked them face to face and they told me yes and they all flaked on me. It just felt mad embarrassing that I initiated plans and no one cared for them. My friend ended up pulling up and we had a good time but I’m also kind of dreading of showing up and people asking me how did it went and the only thing I can say is no one showed up

I’m trying to look for Fall internships that are related to Cybersecurity or IT in New York but I just can’t find much. For the few I find, I don’t get responses until they reject me. Do fall internships come out later or are they out right now?

Two weeks go I interviewed for a second round interview and I aced it, and was told by the manager I’m on the top of his list. For context, the role was a platform engineer intern. Warning, this is pretty long.

After the second round I scheduled a third round with the team that was ment to be In person. I took time off from my current job to go into the interview. The interview was at 11:30 and I got to the lobby at 11 and checked in with security, and at 11:45 the recruiter came down the elevator running to me apologizing on how no one from the team was in person that day. So we both mutually rescheduled, and I hopped on a quick call with the manager where he apologized on making me come inperson and said he won’t be able to do interview me so he’d get a principal engineer.

Now comes today, the format I got told by the manager was to prepare good questions related to infrastructure, where me and him can then discuss how there team implements infrastructure and have a conversation around that (unusual interview style but sure). Since I’ve had no experience with infrastructure I spent all my time studying concepts with that. At 9:30 today I joined the google meet lobby, and instead of being greeted with the principal engineer I get greeted by the recruiter at 9:40 saying how he had to re schedule and I wasn’t even fucking told until 10 minutes AFTER the interview. This was the second time I got stood up on this third round. The recruiter and me rescheduled for 11:30 same day. The time finally came and I finally interviewed for the third round, except it was not the format I was told it’s going to be I was instead grilled at getting asked the most fucking random questions that have no relation to infrastructure like “what algorithm does an xgboost model use”. During the interview he said “you’re one of those pretty boys eh” because I told him I don’t enjoy training models and I like creating applications that would use models instead which I found extremely odd.

To stand out in the interview because from what I had thought, the interview style was a bit easy so I decided to build a monitoring and observability project that can showcase my learning and willingness to learn (because I genuinely wanted the role so I can actually learn) and I was originally going to show it inperson. So I told
Him “hey my last conversation with the manager I realized I had knowledge of Prometheus and opentelemetry but I have never actually used it, so I created a trading environment simulation where I introduced different phases like latency, lag, and more. “ I really wanted to stand out from the other candidates and when I showed him this. He shitted on the technologies I used (there the same ones from the fucking job description and the call with the manager), and because of that he didn’t even care he just asking me the most randomest fucking questions like what’s a kernel in Linux or random networking questions that I have no fucking clue about it’s an infrastructure role. Even for some of the questions he’d ask me I did get them correct but he would be like “oh that’s intresting way to put it”. He asked me around 40+ random questions and at some point I was just saying “I don’t know man” to pretty much all of them. Like he’d ask me if I’ve ever used legacy version control apps and then immediately go and ask oh what’s an interrupt, I’m interviewing for a fucking intern position( I got the interrupt question right)

Now the even odder part is, at the end of the interview when I was asking him questions he just left. I was so confused I thought maybe he’s having connection issues, but he then later emails me saying hey sorry my phone died. He was using his phone to interview me ( a third round) he also had no face cam on if that’s important. I found this to be the most disrespectful interviews I’ve ever done and im contemplating on emailing the manager saying how is this fair. To add, before his phone died he said they have a hard deadline and have to send out the offer end of day. THEN WHY FANCEL ON ME AT 9:30. This is just unfair, knowing the other candidates got a much easier interviewer and didn’t have to deal with getting stood up(asked the recruiter when she joined the 9:30 call). Should I email the manager and tell him how unprofessional this interview was and the fact I was stood up TWICE for a THIRD ROUND INTERVIEW.

So you guys know that LinkedIn has become a Ai-Slop right now.. Even applying for the job aint worth, they will just ghost you, you will never know if you got rejected or not... So i want to know if you know any LinkedIn alternate where real Jobs are available

How to find hrs or ceos to cold mail like how to find the companies , their cto, ceos 🙏🙏🙏

Second year CS. State School, not a target. Decent GPA, two GitHub projects, no internship yet. Applied manually since January. 40 applications. Zero responses, not even rejections. Then I changes two things:

First, I stopped applying to listings that had been up for days and started applying within hours.

Second, I starte using Tsenta to make that possible because I can't be monitoring job boards all day from class.

5 weeks later, 5 recruiter screens. 2 of which turned into technical rounds. I'm not here to oversell it, I still don't have an offer, but going from 6 weeks of 0 screens to 5 screens in 5 weeks is a real shift and I wanted to share it for anyone starting from the same spot.

Hey everyone,

I'm a final-year Computer Science student, and for the past 2–3 months I've been learning Data Science and Machine Learning. I've focused on understanding the concepts and building projects rather than just completing courses.

So far I've learned:

• EDA & Feature Engineering
• VIF, WoE & Information Value
• Logistic Regression
• Decision Trees & Random Forest
• Cross Validation & GridSearchCV
• Model Evaluation

I've also built a few end-to-end ML projects:

• Job Market Salary Prediction
• Banking Fraud Detection
• Healthcare Test Result Prediction
• Telecom churn prediction

I'm currently learning AdaBoost, Gradient Boosting, and XGBoost, and I'll be building projects using them next.

This year is really important for me because I want to secure an ML/Data Science internship before graduating.

So I wanted to ask:

- Based on what I've learned so far, do you think I'm ready to start applying for Junior ML Engineer, ML Developer, or Data Science Intern roles?

- Or should I spend another month or two strengthening my skills before applying?

- What skills or projects would you recommend I focus on next?

- If you know of any companies hiring interns, communities, referrals, or people I should connect with, I'd be incredibly grateful if you could point me in the right direction.

I'd really appreciate honest feedback and advice. Thanks in advance! 🙌