🌎 Remote Students Newsletter - 6/13
☀️ Summer internship alternatives, PM interview prep workshop, + more!
Hey remote students! 👋
Summer is now in full swing! Don’t worry if you’re still searching for something to work on. Here’s a shortlist of internship alternatives and project-based experiences to build your resume this summer:
Mozilla Fix-The-Internet Incubator | Build projects that solve real problems with funding and mentorship from Mozilla
AT&T Summer Learning Academy | Free self-paced online learning externship certificate program powered by award winning AT&T University curriculum
MWML Data Science Incubator | Summer experience for aspiring data scientists who lost their jobs or internships
RISE | Remote internship alternative for students during COVID-19
Work on your own startup/project!
🚀 If you missed our talk last Thursday with Ali Partovi (Founder of Code.org), the key insights are summarized in this blog post: Startup Lessons from Ali Partovi
🚀 For those interested in product management, we’re hosting a PM Interview Prep Workshop with an ex-Google Product Manager! Sign up here: PM Interview Workshop
🙌 our top internships
technical:
✨ Triplebyte - “Just-in-Time” Externship Program | Triplebyte is facilitating remote externships by matching promising CS students with engineering mentors at a variety of top tech companies to work on technical projects
✨ PagerDuty - Software Developer Intern (Fall 2020) | Full-time remote internship for Fall 2020, working on reducing down-time and outages for software companies
✨ Matroid - Computer Vision Intern | Build no-code computer vision tools, backed by NEA
✨ Yieldmo - Data Science Intern | One of the world’s fastest-growing digital advertising and attention analytics companies
non-technical:
✨ Exponent - Product Design Intern | Work directly with the CEO to build products that help tech candidates land their dream job
✨ TikTok - UX Research Intern | Collaborate with product management, design, and research teams and lead a capstone user research project end-to-end
✨ Fivestars - FP&A / Strategic Finance Intern | Fivestars’s mission is to help businesses and communities thrive by turning every transaction into a relationship
✨ Morgan Stanley - Wealth Management Intern | Work on the private wealth management team at a bulge bracket investment bank
🤩 our top new grad & full-time
technical:
✨ Square - Machine Learning Engineer | Use NLP to build a virtual assistant to help merchants serve their customers
✨ Aurora - Embedded Hardware Engineer | Build the next generation of self-driving cars
✨ Databricks - Software Engineer | Databricks is a leader in AI and big data, and was founded by the creators of Apache Spark, Delta Lake, and MLflow
non-technical:
✨ Lambda School - Product Manager | Lambda School is a coding bootcamp with no upfront costs
✨ Insight Partners - Business Analyst | Work at the leading global venture capital and private equity firm focused solely on software and technology start-ups
✨ DocuSign - Technical Project Manager | Drive infrastructure and operations scrum teams to deliver results against key technology initiatives
✨ HubSpot - Customer Support Specialist | 100% remote opportunity at a leading company in cloud marketing software
🛠 resources & opportunities
Exponent Interview Prep Courses | Want to ace your tech interview for SWE, PM, data science and more? Exclusive offer for the Remote Students community: Get 20% off on Exponent's interview prep courses using this link
Remote Students Community | Apply to join an invite-only community for students and get access to more opportunities, mentorship, and events!
Startup Lessons from Ali Partovi | Ali, Founder of Neo and Code.org, talks about accepting risk and choosing startup ideas as a student
hackfrom{home} | Global virtual healthcare hackathon + innovation event dedicated to fighting COVID-19
VMware Scholarships | $15,000 in scholarships sponsored by VMware, applications due 6/14
📆 events and webinars
6/17 - PM Interview Prep Workshop | Learn how to master the PM interview with an ex-Google Product Manager
6/18 - Data Science @ Work x IEX | Elaine Wah (Head of Quantitative Research at IEX) talks about her data science career journey and applications in finance
6/25 - HerCapital x Aspiriant: Personal Finance Series | Virtual workshops focused on personal finance.
6/30 - Talk with Dan Rosensweig (CEO of Chegg)
7/2 - Talk with Cathy Polinsky (CTO of Stitch Fix)
7/7 - Talk with Reshma Saujani (Founder and CEO of Girls Who Code)
🥳 meme of the day
Source: Zoom Memes for Self Quaranteens
As always, you can find the entire list of curated internships and full-time opportunities on our website remotestudents.co, updated in real-time.
Stay safe and healthy! If you have any feedback on the types of roles or content you’d like to see, hit the feedback button.
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