Programming Throwdown, Episode 64, Cryptography.

Take it away, Jason. I actually want to talk about interns and how important that is

understanding how the whole internship process works and implications there um i'll kind of walk through

sort of the whole internship kind of cycle.

Basically, typically you interview, you're, so you're typically in college, you could be

undergrad, graduate student, doctoral student.

You will interview around like December, January-ish, you know, so you'll apply around, I guess, November, December.

But definitely check with whatever company you're interested in because it varies.

And then, you know, you'll do a typically a couple of phone interviews.

And then if you're accepted, you'll sort of formally accept the offer and then you'll

be committed to spending your summer at a, at, you know, whatever company you applied to.

It's pretty cool. I mean, I think it's very sort of loose. Like I've seen really amazing, super exciting internships where you're basically a

full-time engineer. You have a ton of responsibility. You have a lot of help and so amazing work

comes out of it. Now, I've seen internships that, you know, didn't go as well. So it's, you know,

because it's such a short time, it's, there's going to be high variance, right?

But one really key thing is it's super, super important to do an internship if you want to go into industry.

It raises your chances of getting a job significantly.

I mean, there are times in companies I've worked at

where there have been hiring freezes and they still will hire people who are interns, even through

the hiring freeze. So it's really important. I personally haven't done an internship, but I have

over the years kind of mentored interns. And that's really important. I personally haven't done an internship, but I have over the years kind of mentored interns.

And that's another part of it is you'll get paired up with a mentor who is kind of, you know, responsible, kind of like a manager.

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