# Internships

General advice:

* The main two types of interviews for interns are usually: a coding interview and a behavioral interview.
* We recommend trying to participate in and getting as far as possible in competitive programming. The most popular such tournament is [ICPC](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Collegiate_Programming_Contest). We think if you get into ICPC World Finals your chance of getting an internship at a company like Google is \~90%. If you get into ICPC Semifinals, and your English is very good, and you do great at behavioral interviews then we think your chance is about 20% which we think is still very high. 
* If you want to avoid the competitive programming part we recommend working on your own project or getting another internship earlier and building something impressive.
* If your university allows, keep applying for internships from your junior year, both for the Summer and Fall seasons.

Interesting opportunities:

* [Google Summer of Code](https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/). It's a global program focused on bringing more student developers into open source software development. Students work with an open-source organization on a 3-month programming project during their break from school.
  * Application deadline in 2020: March 31
* [The MLH (Major League Hacking) Fellowship](https://fellowship.mlh.io/students) is a 12-week internship alternative for software engineers. Instead of working for a single company, you'll work on the Open Source projects that every company depends on.
  * You must have a bank account in one of the following countries or regions: Australia, Canada, the EU, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Singapore, Switzerland, the UK, or the US.
  * Application deadline in 2020:  May 22

Communities to join:

* In Russian language:
  * [SNS Internships Telegram group](https://t.me/sns_internships). SNS stands for Startups Never Sleep. It was a Russian-language group about startups that grew large and gave rise to subgroups including the one about engineering internships.