Ask HN: What established company offers "educational" development internships?
Anyway, what I mean by educational, is not simply teaching you how "a corporate environment works" or "a new language(s)". Rather, I mean that the company introduces you to a broad range of methodologies and technologies, guides you a little, and then expects you to apply your new found knowledge as fast and as effectively as you can, to build a real-world product.
Last summer, as an example, I worked at a great start up which offered just such an education. I was one of two developers on the team so we had to do a bunch of work right across the board. By my internship's end, I had been a front-end engineer, back-end engineer, UX expert, Designer etc. It took quite bit more work-hours than the average 9-5 job, but the skills I picked up, and the value I gave to my company in return were worth every extra hour, in my opinion.
Thus, my question is if there is a non-start up out there that can offer a similar sort of "fast-paced, learning, long hours" environment. Not a start-up, since I don't necessarily want or need to wear a bunch of hats this time around. But conversely, I also do not wish not to be pigeonholed into just one role like I've seen with some of my peers.
Does anyone have any ideas?
(For the record, I'm looking (and have a good chance, I think) at Cisco, Google, Microsoft, Johnson & Johnson, General Electric, Capital IQ, WayFair and TripAdvisor.)
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[ 1.8 ms ] story [ 23.0 ms ] threadSitePoint, in Melbourne, offers a grad programme where you rotate between four different companies, 1 month each, Flippa, SitePoint, Wave Digital and Learnable. You get to try your hand at a variety of technologies and stacks, and work on existing businesses.
Note: Some of these are quite start-up'y.
http://sitepointgroup.wufoo.com/forms/wanted-talented-gradua...