HACKER Q&A
📣 scrapcode

Part-Time Remote Software Development Internships


I currently work full-time in an engineering-based career field and am interested in turning my long time passion for development into a career. I am a new father, full time student graduating early 2022 located in the Midwestern US and feel that the pursuit to switch careers will be much more successful with an internship under my belt.

Due to insurance reasons an ideal internship would be full-time with hours after 4PM CST, or part-time the same. I'm reaching out to see if something like this is ideal for your team or one you may have run across. I have experience in PHP (CI, Laravel), Python (Django, Flask), Ruby (Rails), Node, C++, Java and highly prefer C#/.NET at the moment. I am fairly well versed in the full stack, TDD, Agile Methodologies and version control (git). It's a shot in the dark - but for the right situation I think I'd be a great fit and am eager to add value to any product for the experience of working with awesome teams.

  👤 mdisc Accepted Answer ✓
I applaud your ambition, but i can’t imagine how this would be work. You’re employed full time, you’re in grad school full time, and you’re a new father—- how would you actually have any time to do an internship? How much time you could actually give? How would you be able to concentrate enough to learn the concepts and apply them to actually be a net contributor to the company after a certain amount of time? As someone who who has hired many interns and seen some work out and others not, I don’t see that you’re setup for success- and the type of team that would bring you on in this situation likely wouldn’t be one you would want to learn from.

I don’t know all of your situation, but if I we’re looking at your profile, having an internship as a software engineer would make think you’re more de-risked as a hire than having a grad degree.

👤 probinso
you're looking for Google summer of code. I don't know if anybody else does it, but they do it. Unfortunately it is only in summers, but if you choose a project carefully you might be able to get external sponsorship throughout the year afterwards. Volunteer for open source projects that have funding you can potentially take advantage of