🌍 Remote Students Newsletter - 5/28
Startup shadowing, fireside chat with Ali Partovi, and more!
Hey remote students! 👋
We’re hosting a Fireside Chat with Ali Partovi next week (CEO of Neo, Co-Founder of Code.org, early investor in Airbnb, Dropbox, Facebook, & Uber). Sign up here to attend the talk and ask him questions!
For those of you starting internships, good luck! Even though it’s remote, you’ll crush it. 👊
🙌 our top internships
technical:
✨ Building Blocks Technology - Summer Intern | Learn and apply skills in backend development, NLP/ML/Data Analytics, and UI/UX for blockchain technology
✨ Remote Students - Full-Stack Web Intern | Join us to build our new community platform from the ground up using React and work with the founding team
✨ Snackpass - Software Engineer Intern | Support local businesses by building mobile order pickup platforms, funded by a16z
✨ wagr - iOS Engineer Intern | Create and share sports bets with your friends
✨ Fivestars - QA Automation Intern | Fivestars’s mission is to help businesses and communities thrive by turning every transaction into a relationship
non-technical:
✨ Unity - Product Manager Intern | Improve the user experience of the 1M+ creators that use the world’s leading real-time 3D development platform
✨ TikTok - Content Programming Intern | Help guide in-app content strategy and support the team across a variety of creative content initiatives
✨ curbFlow - Product Manager Intern (MBA) | Using technology to make curbside delivery safer and more accesible
✨ Chapter One Ventures - Design Intern | Work directly with Jeff Morris Jr. (prev. VP of Product at Tinder) on his new venture
✨Soma Capital - Startup Shadowing Fellowship | Work with seed stage startups through a summer/fall internship, then launch your own startup through an incubator
🤩 our top new grad & full-time
technical:
✨ Amazon (A9.com) - Software Development Engineer | Work on the search engine team of the most valuable company in the world
✨ Brex - Software Engineer (Product) | Brex is building the new global standard for financial services, starting with corporate cards
✨ Pure Storage - Software Engineer | Work at one of the biggest enterprise data companies in the world
✨ Vatic Labs - Algorithm Trader | Research and develop innovative and quantitative strategies to trade on stock markets
non-technical:
✨ Robinhood - Customer Experience Associate | Build great customer experiences for a product that’s democratizing finance for all
✨ Atlassian - Associate Product Manager | Atlassian’s APM program is designed to grow ambitious, hardworking all-rounders into the next generation of global leaders
✨ Google X - Product Manager (Life Science) | X is Google’s secretive “moonshot factory” that spun out companies like Waymo, Loon, and Wing
🛠 resources
interviewing.io | Do live practice interviews with software engineers from Google, Facebook, and more! Sign up through Remote Students to get 3 free peer interviews.
Remote Students Community | Apply to join an invite-only community for students and get access to more opportunities, mentorship, and events!
Breaking into PM with Kristina Hu | Kristina is a PM at Uber and incoming MBA student at Harvard Business School. Kristina talks about breaking into PM with a non-technical degree and why she decided to get her MBA.
Advice from Holly Liu (Founder of Kabam, ex-YC Visiting Partner) | Holly shares her story and advice for students interested in VC, startups, and the gaming industry.
Neo Startup Connect | Initiative to connect top students with top startups like Notion, Retool, Vanta, & Figma
🏆 hackathons
6/13 - COVID-19 Policy Hackathon
6/22 - Square Small Business Hackathon ($36,000 in prizes)
6/24 - Facebook Online Hackathons ($21,000 in prizes)
7/13 - Atlassian Codegeist 2020 ($315,000 in prizes)
7/15 - Amazon Raise-Up Buildathon ($31,000 in prizes)
📆 events and webinars
5/28 - Fireside Chat with David Sacks (Founding COO of PayPal, Founder/CEO of Yammer)
5/28 - Talk with Tido Carriero (Chief Product Development Officer at Segment, early engineer at Facebook/Dropbox)
6/1 - McKinsey BA Exploration Week (6/1 - 6/5)
6/4 - Fireside Chat with Ali Partovi (CEO of Neo, Co-Founder of Code.org)
6/15 - Talk with Michael Seibel (CEO of YCombinator) hosted by Black Geek Week at Bloomberg
🥳 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. Enjoy!
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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