- the amount of hand holding you need should be decreasing 
 - you're being exposed to new things instead of doing similar things over and over 
 - you're able to interact with people from different teams or at least different people 
  
 Also, as @Dbdheishdbsh said, you should be pushing stuff to prod 
  
 If you don't have monthly 1:1 with your manager, try asking your colleagues for feedback

Software Engineer

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How to know that my internship going in a right direction?

How to know that my internship going in a right direction?- Grapevine

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I just joined a new internship (my first offline internship) at a big company and don't know what to do here... I am getting small tasks that I finish in half a day, not getting a big project and then I'm free for the rest of the office hours, don't know if I should ask for work or it would be allotted to me. I know it's silly but is this normal? And what should I do? I need clarity regarding corporate life, lmao!

Just joined a new internship

Internships are all the rage for undergrads, but are they all they're cracked up to be?  Here's a quick look at both sides:

Pros: Gain real-world experience, build your resume, network with professionals, and test-drive your career path!  Internships can give you a leg up when applying for jobs after graduation.

Cons: Not all internships offer valuable experience. Some can be unpaid and involve menial tasks. Balancing academics and an internship can be tough, and there's no guarantee of a job offer at the end.

The Verdict: Internships can be a great learning experience, but do your research! Choose an internship that aligns with your interests and offers meaningful work. Remember, it's one piece of the puzzle, so focus on your academics and overall development too!

Internship Frenzy:  Worth the Hype?

TLDR;

Had a data science intern join our team. His resume was really impressive, good academic record, had a couple of research internship (NUS, IIT), 4 papers in  journals etc. His interview was just okay, but we probably got biased by his resume which looked stellar.
This guy didn’t know very basic python programming. We gave him basic task of converting a image dataset from one format to another(very first step of developing ML model). Took a week, constantly badgered all the team members, would just randomly copy code from ChatGPT, and if it won’t work, would ask us to solve it for him. Didn’t figure it out in a week, and at the end of week, we arranged a meeting with him about the update of work. Turns out, he didn’t even understand the task clearly. But we didn’t mind him, as it was his first week and we cut him some slack. The next week, I understood that he struggled in programming so gave him very basic task. He just had to figure out a command line program. Took two days, gave the result without any documentation, and the very next day he asked whether he would get the credit of his work and that it would account for his decision to full time conversion. 
Then he started taking a leave, EVERY WEEK. We used to have scrum call at 10AM, this guy wakes up at 10:30AM, and tells that he slept late and would come to office by 11AM( we had work from office policy), and he would come around 11:30AM. Would slack at work the entire day, give him some basic task, would keep asking silly doubts, copy paste code from ChatGPT and ask us to solve the bugs. Come to office without taking bath, no professionalism at all. One day I scolded him a lot, to come at time, learn some professionalism( if he doesn’t have good skills, atleast a humble attitude and professionalism should be there), but dude had no effect, comes at 12PM the very next day, missing the scrum call again. Was scolded many times, but didn’t have effect on him. 50k/per month stipend, completely wasted.

Tell story of the worst intern that you had

Machine Learning Engineer

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Hello.
I am a Tier 3 second year sem4 student in Ahmedabad LJ University 
I am currently having an internship as a python developer like I write code connecting python with aws and azure
Not great work but I get 5k a month

I know MERN stack with some docker and aws knowledge 

Now I am confused as college is bringing internship but they are with 2 year bond! And the stipend offering is 5-10k which will increase every six month
I may get a MERN Stack job there 

Also as the work in current internship is not great I am also thinking if not college i find some other MERN stack internship on my own but I am in super doubt as if what if I can't find one.

What should I do
Leave my current intern for college internship with bond
Leave my current intern and try to find on my own
Continue with this internship only for more 3 months they are offering


Can everyone please help me.

Super Confused as a Student in Tier-3 college. Help Needed

I am a student from tier 3 college. Just had the round 1 of Wayfair Software Engineering Internship challenge ( Did pretty well). I don't have any idea how my further rounds of Wayfair internship would be. Apart from this I have got 2 offer letters for Business development Interns who will be offering me a salary of 8-10LPA after internship. I am quite confused about what to choose? I don't feel comfortable choosing BD over a proper tech job/internship, it would be very difficult to switch to development later.

Regarding Internship

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Despite learning application development in both my bachelor’s and master’s degrees, I’ve found myself as an intern ✨ in an exciting ML research paper prototype manufacturing unit 💻 .Now, I’m at a crossroads, unsure of my next steps. Any guidance or insights would be greatly appreciated!”

Whats Next after internship  !

Database administrator

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Hey Grapeviners, 

I need some serious help. 

Bit about myself - just graduated this month and working as an APM at a seed stage startup. I have 1.5 years of product experience and 3 years of overall experience. 

Lately, not sure why but I am loving what engineers do. Closely working with them, and I guess it's nostalgic for myself. Because I did coding for 6 months and moved on for some reason. So, I understand how tech actually works. Have got good feedback regarding this. 

At the same time, I am not really finding the true value of what I am doing everyday. Feels a void inside. 

Also, I am not able to discuss all these things in person with someone, because I fear that they will judge me after doing internships for 3 years, I still haven't figured out my career. Such a loser I am. 

I have been thinking about starting coding again and maybe switching to a coding job in the next 6 months maybe. But again it would be tough for me as I only got weekends for me to learn all this stuff. 

What do you all experienced folks suggest? What should I do? 

Please comment if you can help🙏

Switch from PM to Engineer

Product Manager

"I recently joined a startup a few days ago, but now I'm feeling very underconfident. This is my first internship, and I feel like I don't know anything. I'm not able to follow anything, and I can't even set up and run things perfectly. I'm just lost. I sit on my chair from morning to evening, even at night, but nothing productive is coming out. The task which is given to me, I'm only able to do it halfway or can't even start.

Having self doubts

Hey everyone, heading into my first internship this summer, no other work experience  and want to hear from full time employees on the lesser known things that secure the return offer. By this I mean things other than being able to adapt to work, ask questions, not making same mistake over and over - basically the things that aren't talked about but from your perspective really makes huge a difference in your opinion on the intern.

Thanks in advance!

The "Not So Obvious" Things That Get You A Return Offer?

Software Developer

I was interning with a logistics visibility company called FourKites. (SDE Intern)
Joined in June 2023 and left in March 2024.
They made us work like mules. As interns, we used to do same work as that of SDE-1 and SDE-2 . Bug fixes, working on features, automation , QA, everything we did for 25k stipend hoping that we would get PPO in the end.
In March, they told us that only 6 out of 40 interns will be given PPO, rest all can fuck off by 31 may. I resigned the same day but still haven't gotten a single OA except for IBM and IBM didn't reply after the OA.
I feel frustrated and lost.

Internship Scams

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Seniors of Grapevine,  Please advice what can I do to make the most of it?

Starting my final year internship ✨

many of my male batchmates with similar coding skills got internship opportunity at top companies like Google, Sprinkler, GS, etc. And i wasn't able to crack even the coding round. later I got to know about everyone was involved in cheating during online coding test forming groups and giving it together. what should I do now, should i consider taking any small internship at some random startup for the sake of filling the experience section of my resume? I will be having placement season after 6 months around september. someone guide me what should i focus more these many days. I am from tier 1 college and around 1500 rated on codeforces and done some good projects in mobile developement.

internship/ placement dilemma 😔

Hi guys, wanted to get your thoughts. I have been a marketer for 10 years and have doing decently well. My salary is not exorbitant but good enough as per market standards. However, I never enjoyed marketing much. I always felt inclined to coding and respected that work more than what I did. 

Lately I have been getting really frustrated with what I am doing and contemplating changing my trade from marketing to software development. In the last one year I built a lot of apps on google app script and collab and it was a joy working on them. Even after work I would keep thinking about the code and that was never true for marketing. Now I am thinking should I move full time into it.

I want to start out as an intern and work my way up. Will it be a good idea. Am I overestimating myself?

From marketer to software developer

Product Marketing Manager

I am 2023 passout and I got fulltime around 2023 July, till now I have total 1 year internship experience and 9-10 months full-time.
I decided to switch because of multiple reasons like, sometimes wlb become worst, toxic management and full politics, not feeling like learning anything just making APIs from past few months.
As I am in my early stage of career I got a good switch with approx 120% hike on Base and 60-70% hike on CTC.
Now I am in highly doubt that this switch is a good switch or I should have waited for 2 years and could have switched to directly sde2 with more compensation?

My preference is both good compensation and good wlb.

Please suggest me something?
My goal is to reach 50LPA base till 4 to 5 years of experience.

Have I made a wrong decision?

I'm from a tier 3 college and can't get my hands on good projects or cool teams to work with. My peers are bookworms and have no practical knowledge, I feel completely directionless atm🫠. Anyine know where I could look/ what I could do?

No opportunities :(

Product Designer

While working in a company, how do I get to know if I am doing good work or not?
How do I get to know that this work experience will be useful in the future to switch between companies?

Career growth

Had been selected for internship+placement as an engineer on campus, but lately due to market conditions our internship tenure is reduced from 6 months to 3 months and full time will be conditional based on performance and business conditions.

1 month has passed and we are only doing automation testing till now and now my mentor has asked to start working on Angular as well. We are working remotely.

Mentor rarely connects with us as he is the team lead, what should I do that the mentor recommends me well at the end of the internship to the HR?

Internship tips & tricks for PPO.

Hey guys, 
Serious question, 
I'll be interning at an MNC in Bangalore over the summer and I got this internship via campus placements.

I wanted to know what are the most common mistakes interns make and what can I do to avoid them? 

What technicals should I revise before I start? 

My role is a Software Engineering intern. 

What do I do to translate the internship into a proper PPO?

Thanks.

Intern mistakes and how to avoid them?

I’m interning in a place which was massively funded but recently it has laid off more than 20% of the workforce. should I leave or continue?

How to know that my internship going in a right direction?

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