Intern mistakes and how to avoid them?

Ask me anything except my company name, or things that can reveal my identity. I may respectfully choose not to respond to your question based on my own judgement. Here’s a brief intro about me: I’ve worked as both software engineering manager & software technical architect over the last 18+ years on various tech stacks managing backend, frontend and a little bit of cloud. I have seen ups and downs in the software industry. Currently I’m working as a senior architect in one of the product based companies in India.

Hey guys, So I'm a senior BTech CSE engineering student from a Tier 2 college in Karnataka and I will be interning at a Top MNC in Bangalore over the summer for 2 months. Any advice for me? As I will be entering the infamous corporate world as a new chapter in my life, I wanna know how the dynamics in corporate works and what I should prepare for. Thank you lads.

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?

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!

Best if I ask them, rather than assuming things! - When you crack SDE Internship(MAANG types) at a big tech giant, do they give you general work or place you in a department that is along the lines of your projects and/or OSS contributions. Say I've got intermediate mobile engineering skills under my belt, will that be my department for the duration of the internship or I'll be expected to code to other 'alien-to-me' parts of the codebase. -What degree of skill proficiency do they expect. I'm sure I'm not founding any companies single handedly but still, for the heck of it: how skilled would you need to be to survive interning there daily? P.S.A. -> I can you feel like being mean to me in the comments, this is who you're being mean to :

Please mention your mistakes you've done in your preparation period for companies as a fresher. As I am a fresher, so that I can avoid those problems at first.

Have applied for a position at a startup for PM internship. Have no prior experience. Somehow if I get a call for interview, just want to make sure I don't make a fool of myself. If you could please help me outline what things to know before sitting for such an interview? Experienced PMs based on India, do you know da way? Show me da way :)

Iam currently studying in a second year engineering software domain, I have a question that is how much internship a person as a fresher needs to do to bring a proper weightage to his/ her resume during placements specially during times such as recession and high competitions, recommend some free internships if possible, also what are the major skills that the company look before hiring?

Hey everyone, My first post in Grapevine I will be finishing my 2nd yr(T2 ECE), and want to do an internship. I know only very basic concepts of python, Java, oops dsa and in ML/data science (all youtube) Can you tell what is actually done throughout an internship, ie do they give you small tasks like writing a function (similar to the problem stmts from codechef/hacker rank) or you get to shadow them while they're working or they assume u already know the stuff and make you part of team that develops a fully fledged backend application or even worse they ask you to develop some basic website or ask u to create a model with demo datasets? Now if I were to apply for internships at some good companies or startups, pls suggest what and how should I prepare for it? What and all should I expect them to ask me? Also please do drop in your first internship experiences. PS: Im not interested in virtual internships, and I want to get into the field of ML. Tl;dr: Explain how internships work