Internship Session
Computer Science and Engineering
Various Options
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Company Intern
Non-Core Intern
Research Intern
Startup parallely with Company Intern
Core Companies:
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Why?
Practical implementation of classroom learning and how different it is!
Research, investigation and problem solving.
Experiencing the working environment.
Getting an insight into large scale projects.
How?
1. Resume based screening.
2. Written Screening Test of multiple and programming questions. (2,3 hours)
3. Two, Three rounds of Interviews. (30-40 minutes)
FOCUS:
1.Problem Solving and coding.
2. Algorithmic Problems.
Sites:
http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/users/aca/index.html#slide4
http://www.careercup.com/
http://www.geeksforgeeks.org/
Confused between non-core and
core
● What interests you- algorithms, analysis…
● Decide the reason for choosing non-core
● Your expectations from the intern
● Explore and decide on your own
Companies and options
• Finance
– Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse
– Tower Research
– Goldman Sachs
– Futures first, World quant
Preparation for non-core
● Expectations from company
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Justify your interest in finance
Communication skills, Analytical skills, quant skills
● Preparation
o Puzzles
o Departmental question
o General economic affairs knowledge
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Analytical questions based on it
Research Intern
Why research intern?
● Research/PhD in near future
● Interact with the most brilliant
people of your era
● Exposure to a uniquely different
lifestyle
What to expect?
● Is research your call?
● Open ended exploration into
state of art techniques
● Letter of Recommendation
● Flexible working hours
Research Intern
List of programs:
1. MITACS
2. DAAD
3. INRIA
4. Charpak
5. SURF - Caltech
6. Cornell-IIT prog.
7. EPFL
8. SURGE
9. ETH Zurich
10. MPI
11. Georgia Tech
12. Viterbi
13. SN Bose
14. NTU Singapore (Less preference given
to sub-continent)
15. MSR (Redmond + India)
16. Adobe
17. Xerox Lab
18. IBM Research
19. Apping
20. Other opportunities via CSE webmail
Research Intern
Application Requirement:
1. 2 Recommendation Letter (In rare cases 3)
2. Statement of Purpose
3. Cover Letter
4. Resume
Startup parallely with Company
Intern
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The Bigger Game
Writing code is just one part
Managing things
Passion
Risk
If you’re interested attend
startup101 classes
Details of Seniors
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Yeshi Dolma – Amazon
Karan Singh – MSR
Dhruv Yadav – NYU
Harshad Sawhney – DB
Deepak Choudhary – Startup (Pariksha)