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OFF TOPIC QUESTIONS ARE NOT SUPPORTED!

Internship questions seeking career advice or discussions about workplace issues are off-topic on this site. We recommend avoiding asking any such questions here. Before asking on a different site in the stackexchange network, please review their site rules.

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How many questions are appropriate to ask as an intern?

So, I just started an internship, and I'm worried that I'm asking too many questions. My mentor assigns me projects and helps me learn all the company's technologies and methodologies. However, there's so much new material for me to learn while…
Casey Patton
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How much effort should you put into a junior developer?

At what point should one give up? I've tried helping them out by having them shadow me. We agree to break a minute, and then they go missing in action for a while...then just go back to their desk. Even when I know they've done this, part of me…
Edward Strange
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Overwhelmed at Internship

My best friend just started his internship a month ago. The problem is he is discouraged. He was a good A+ student at school, and he is feeling that he doesn't know anything at all. The issues he is working on, although they are on languages he…
Jeremiah Richards
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Red flags of unpaid IT internship

I read the following question: Tips for a first year CS student looking for a summer internship to gain experience? But rather than how to get and/or look for internships, my questions concerns of how to filter companies looking for free labor to do…
Armando
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What are the benefits to a dev team for taking on an intern for the summer?

My Dev team is entertaining the idea of taking on a summer intern or two. It's clear the benefits the intern gets out of such an engagement, but what benefits would the Dev team hosting the intern for a couple of months benefit? Does anyone have…
kacalapy
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