Techintern.io

My break into tech was via an internship. I'm a big believer in opportunities like this and later in my career I've found working with young, earnest talent particularly enjoyable.

How we began: Techintern.io started during the pandemic when we saw strong software developer students have their internships cancelled. At the same time, certain tech startups were getting a lot of funding and aggressively hiring. We were also inspired by the University of Waterloo's co-op program and hope to bring regular internship opportunities to talented students from all backgrounds. How it works: We connect directly with the best student developers interested in working at startups. We source them through our network of club leads at colleges and student organizations. This term we are also expanding to smaller colleges and alternate education programs to open up internship opportunities to everyone, not just students from x, y, or z. Students opt into companies in hiring rounds about once a month. This way, companies get all their details together so that they can reach out, batch interviews and hire within weeks. We've worked with companies of less than 10 people like AudioFocus, where a more experienced intern taking a contractor-like role was the best fit, all the way up to a multinational tech company like Afterpay. We see interns as the best way to expand the tech hiring pipeline as well as find passionate builders for your company. It's also a great way to expand your team's horizons with new perspectives. Please ask us anything about the intern hiring process or projects that might be a good fit for an intern. How you can get started: If you're a VC, we'd love to chat! We have worked with VC firms by connecting their portfolio companies to great student talent. Please reach out at kingsong@techintern.io If you're a tech company or startup, please send us your job role at https://www.techintern.io before March 31 (next Wednesday)!

I connected Kingsong with one of my portfolio companies in the fall and he helped them hire an intern that 10x'd their development speed. Would 100% recommend this to anyone considering it.

Our team loved using the product! We used Techintern to build our first ML infra intern team. We were very happy with the diversity and calibre of candidates available from top universities and work experience at top companies. We closed on a very talented ML infra candidate within a month of onboarding onto the platform 🤯🤯🤯

This is amazing and I wish I had access to this site when I was in school (barely missed it by a year!). From the student's perspective: finding an internship is not an easy process as you have to apply through multiple sites and manually keep track of all your application status. Great launch, looking forward to how it grows over time!

I get that it saves a lot of time for companies (instead of needing to go to every single school to source themselves), but it ALSO saves so much time for students. No more needing to go from one site to another to constantly input the same information. 😅

I'll give it a look, for sure! Thanks for sharing and congrats on the launch :)