Internship

Guidance
Talk
Coding Club
IIT Guwahati
 Why, What and How
of internships.

Agenda Profile-wise
discussion
Utilising your 2nd year

QnA

Gunjan Dhanuka, CSE SDE Intern at Rubrik

 Everything you
wanted to know
about 3rd year
internships
Here we go!
Gunjan Dhanuka, CSE SDE Intern at Rubrik
Why Internships?
Valuable Experience Important for placements
The best thing you can Key experience and
do in summer! technical skills gained.

PPOs Stipend
Placement sorted before Ofcourse!
placements begin1

Gunjan Dhanuka, CSE SDE Intern at Rubrik

 Do you
want to
work here?
A few of the companies...

Gunjan Dhanuka, CSE SDE Intern at Rubrik SD 5508

Internship
Process
Apply for a company Screening Tests Interviews
(Technical and HR)
An email will notify you A online/offline test will
when a company comes conducted. The final step!
for hiring interns.

Slot 1 Slot 1.1 Spot 1 Slot 2 Slot 2.1 Spot 2 Infinite slot

Project Overview
Gunjan Dhanuka, CSE SDE Intern at Rubrik
 Slots Spots
Selection according to your On the spot selection, no preferences
preference list.
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Resume

Mansi, CSE SWE Intern at Microsoft

 Resume part 1

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Projects
Achievements

Technical

Skill
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SDE Quant ML
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Off-
Design Research campus
Most of y’all will
do this
Software Development Engineer
(SDE)

Atharva Tagalpallewar, Chemical Engineering Product Intern at Adobe

 SDEs are
everywhere
Is SDE for me?
Just try it out!
Roadmap
 Start with projects 2. DSA 3. Intern

Learn tech stacks and

Important for tests and interviews
Here’s more you might want to

do projects parallely say to elaborate on that point.

2-3 months

Atharva Tagalpallewar, Chemical Engineering Product Intern at Adobe

Sirf YouTube
tutorials dekhne se
coding nahi hota
Just watching YouTube tutorials is not coding
Projects

Meaningful
Group
Original

Projects Projects? Work

1. 2. 3.

Atharva Tagalpallewar, Chemical Engineering Product Intern at Adobe

Projects

Deep Finish Explore new

Understanding Projects
domains
and deploy them

4. 5. 6.

Atharva Tagalpallewar, Chemical Engineering Product Intern at Adobe

Courses
Object
Computer
DBMS Oriented Architecture
Programming

Operating
Advanced

Systems C++ /Python

More important to understand the concepts

than to just complete the courses
Prior Internships When you are comfortable with a
tech stack you can try internship

Future prospects?
Real life industrial experience?
Preferred duration?
Is it worth it?
Paid or Unpaid? Virtual or Offline?

Which domain?
Samyak Jain, Mechanical Engineering SDE Intern at RazorPay
How do I get one?

Work under any GSoC / MLH Research

Start-ups
professor Fellowships interns

Samyak Jain, Mechanical Engineering SDE Intern at RazorPay

Achievements to include

Hackathons
Department Rank

Open source programs

NTSE/KVPY

CP competitons
JEE Rank

Prior scholarships Inter-IIT

Samyak Jain, Mechanical Engineering SDE Intern at RazorPay

SDE Resume part 1

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Who are the
highest payers?
Trading Firms (HFTs)

Quant/Systems

Sarthak Diwan, MnC SD Intern at AlphaGrep

What do
they do?
High-frequency trading, also known
as HFT, is a method of trading that
uses powerful computer programs
and highly complex algorithms to
transact a large number of orders in
fractions of a second.

On Campus Examples: Alphagrep,

QuadEye

Sarthak Diwan, MnC SD Intern at AlphaGrep

Whom they hire?
High CPI
You must have a 9+ CPI and the
better department rank the better Off campus hiring
it is.
They do have off campus hirings.
Try to apply for the ones which
don’t visit our campus for now.

Example: NK Securitites, Quantbox,

Mostly CS/MnC Graviton, Optiver
Although they are open for circuital
branches, but mostly hire from CS/
MnC

Sarthak Diwan, MnC SD Intern at AlphaGrep

/Profiles/Quant/Prep
Courses Books
MA225 - Probability Theory and Heard on the Street: Quantitative Questions
Random Processes

from Wall Street Job Interviews

Statistics 110 : Youtube playlist by

harvard university.
50 Challenging Problems in Probability

Xinfeng Zhou

Peter Winkler

https://github.com/tejas01101001/Quant
Puzzles from BrainStellar.com

Sarthak Diwan, MnC SD Intern at AlphaGrep

/Profiles/Systems/Prep
Other Materials
C++ Object Model Internals:

www.avabodh.com

Courses

The Cherno C++ Playlist

Specific topics from GeeksForGeeks like
virtual functions, smart pointers..

DSA Required! Similar questions from

InterviewBit, Leetcode

Sarthak Diwan, MnC SD Intern at AlphaGrep

Wish to work on
big data and
god-tier GPUs?
Machine Learning / Data
Science roles

Gunjan Dhanuka, CSE Offered Data Science Intern at Microsoft

Industrial or Research?
Depends on your purpose!
What they
expect?
Most companies expect you to have
atleast a good grasp of vanilla ML
principles and statistics. Deep
Learning is an added bonus for sure!

Mathematics behind the models is

important! Projects are especially
crucial for ML roles.

Gunjan Dhanuka, CSE Offered Data Science Intern at Microsoft

Roadmap
 Test the waters 2. Delve deeper 3. Gain Experience

Take up the summer courses Take up the Deep Learning Work on a research intern or
floated by various clubs and see if specialization and practice on startup to gain some experience.
it interests you. Kaggle. Inter-IIT / Hackathons are also good
project sources.

Gunjan Dhanuka, CSE Offered Data Science Intern at Microsoft

Last 2 months

Practice DSA Start revising Revise course

from IB. stats and notes.

prob.

1. 2. 3.

Gunjan Dhanuka, CSE Offered Data Science Intern at Microsoft

Last 2 months

Look at Finish Study your

interview exp. Projects

projects well.
and deploy them

4. 5. 6.

Gunjan Dhanuka, CSE Offered Data Science Intern at Microsoft

Jupyter notebooks
are not projects!
Make sure to deploy the project or release it as a well-documented
repository.
Projects Testify your skills concretely!

Course projects

Kaggle competitions
Club projects

Project Ideas
Hackathons
Your own ideas!

Inter-IIT

Gunjan Dhanuka, CSE Offered Data Science Intern at Microsoft

Achievements to include

Kaggle Ranks

Hackathons

Inter-college competitions on Unstop

ML programmes attended (eg Amazon)

Gunjan Dhanuka, CSE Offered Data Science Intern at Microsoft

ML Resume part 1

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ML Resume part 2
Only Btech didnt
fill your appetite?
Research Internships

Omkar Chaudhari, CST Research Intern at NCL

What is
research intern?
A research internship can be
anything from working in a lab
under a professor or a remote
intern where you perform Research
calculations, data analysis, and Tntern
literature review; it can be in any
field, from the sciences to math,
economics, and more.

Omkar Chaudhari, CST Research Intern at NCL

Responsibilties

1. 2.
Weekly meetings Literature Review

3. 4.
Finding new modifications to existing Presenting findings to professor or
methods advisor.
Is Research for me?
Just try it out!
Why do Getting first
research intern? hand research
experience

Research internships can provide a Connections

great boost to your skills and allow with faculty
Exploring
you to learn to get out of your different
comfort zone to solve new problems. fields
They are a perfect opportunity to Convey
pursue your interests in any field, and information
will boost your resume quite a bit for efficiently
further studies. Contributing to
the advancement
of the field

Omkar Chaudhari, CST Research Intern at NCL 10

How to apply?

Programs Cold Mailing

Omkar Chaudhari, CST

 Programs Cold Mailing
Methodical. Straightforward. Effort. Organic.

Chance to get Interests Specific Topic Particular Prof

Easy &
Good Stipend funded foreign accessible or Lab
interns

Omkar Chaudhari, CST

 Cold Mailing
1.
Search for professors or labs relevant to your
2.
Get their emails through LinkedIn or their
interests, or try to browse through faculty lists in college faculty page.
various colleges.

3.
Familiarize yourself with their research, and show
4.
them that your research interests match their Start Mailing!

work.
When?
During the Semester - Good if you can manage your time well. Will
give you a good experience.

Winter holidays - Very few opportunities available. Look within the

institute or remote.

Summer vacations - A lot of opportunities. You can continue

working remotely after the vacations end.

The important thing is that you do it, not when.

Where?
Remote — best if you are working along with your semester
or have other commitments.

Onsite — essential for non-CS research internships, get to

travel too :)

Github Link - https://github.com/himahuja/Research-Internships-for-Undergraduates

Research Resume part 1

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Off Campus

Internships
Looking beyond IITG
Why would one Getting first
go for off- hand research
experience
campus intern?
Connections
Well – this is a highly subjective with
Exploring company
question. A candidate may find different
greater scope for internships beyond fields
the institute’s current offerings. Lack Convey
of options for a particular information
department, desiring a work profile efficiently
that is not available within the Contributing to
the advancement
arriving roles of the field
Debarshi Chanda, CL Apllied Scientist, Amazon
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Siddhartha Kumar Singh, CE SDE intern BYJU’S
Sources
 Carrer Websites 2. LinkedIn 3. Hackathons

Start checking for internship at A referral is the easiest way to get Participating in companies
websites like companies websites an interview call for an Internship. hackathons and Problem
and offline classified ads. Statements would even land you an
internship with them

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 CV LinkedIn

Tailor Mention your

Talk in terms of Showcase your Display your
according to Keep it Short certificates and POR achievements
numbers
job description skills

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How to make the
best of your 2nd
year?
Tips and Tricks

Omkar Chaudhari, CST Research Intern at NCL

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Second year is the best time

to explore your interests!
Every third yearite ever!

SD 5508
DSA Projects

1. 2
CP PoRs

3. 4.
Why DSA?
Esssential for any profile -
SDE/ML/Quant
Data
Asked in interviews.
Structures and

It gives you an edge in CP Algorithm

contests, hackathons.

Pranshu Pandya, CSE Project Engineer Intern at Sprinklr

Getting started

Start with Abdul Bari, Apna Take note of

tutorials on YT. College, whatever you

CodeWithHarry, learn.

Aditya Verma

1. 2. 3.
Pranshu Pandya, CSE Project Engineer Intern at Sprinklr
Practice, practice,
practice!
Solve problems on InterviewBit, Leetcode, GFG and give contests.

4.
Learning Resources
Reading Practice
Tutorials
 Abdul Bari Algorithm  CP-Algorithm  LeetCod
 Apna Colleg  GF3  CSEW
 CodeWithHarry  Cp-handbook  InterviewBit

Pranshu Pandya, CSE Project Engineer Intern at Sprinklr

Projects

Crucial for a good interview!

Unique projects can tell a

story.
Projects
More complex, better
project.

Vighnesh, ECE Server Tech Intern at Oracle

Where to get

projects?

0 Coding Club CV Projects and

DIY Project

0 Other Clubs and Fest

0 Professor

0 Think of an idea!
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Projects Testify your skills concretely!

Significant contri
in group project.
Document your project.
Know the
inside out of
Do’s and Don’ts the project.

Extensive README of the Don’t leave for

repo. the last.

Vighnesh, ECE Server Tech Intern at Oracle

It’s more about the
effort.
Projects are not space-fillers in your CVs but instead they are
testaments of your dedication and efforts.
Competitive Programming
Edge over simple DSA.

Helps in coding rounds.

Can add to your CP

achievements.

Akshaj Padmakar, EEE Project Engineer Intern at Sprinklr

What to do?

CP.begin() course Give contests as Participate in

can be used for much as possible Kickstart , Hacker

starting. on CF, Atcoder, Cup, ICPC etc.

Codechef, etc.

0. 1. 2.
Akshaj Padmakar, EEE Project Engineer Intern at Sprinklr
Only CP is not

enough.

Just doing CP won’t guarantee you a good internship -- projects and

good soft skills are also crucial !

PoRs
Add personality to profile!

Technical PoR complement

skills.
PoRs
Not as important as other
parts of CV.

Akshaj Padmakar, EEE Project Engineer Intern at Sprinklr

Design

Internships
Don’t worry, we got you covered.

by

Krunal, CL - Upcoming Product Design Intern @ Atlassian

Vedaprakash, EEE - Upcoming Product Design Intern @ DevRev

 Industrial
Design
Digital
Product
Design
Growth

Design
Visual Design Fields

Tangible we will

Product
Design talk about
Content
There are a lot more
Design options nowadays
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Next Steps
 Design Basics 2. Tools 3. Projects

Online resources
Figma
Coming Up...
Campus workshops
Notion

Classes etc...
Why
projects?
To grow as a designer

To apply your learnings

Portfolio
What are
projects?
Solving
problem
statements 

through a
design process.
How to solve a problem statement

Process Mentors Reviews

1. 2. 3.
First project?

Self Initiated Club projects Competitions

Freedom Mentors Comparisions

1. 2. 3.
But what about
internships as first
project?
Quality over Quantity
The next step-

Presenting
yourself
Portfolio building
Behance Website
Case Studies -

Why and How to

make one
Digital representation of you
and how you can and will work
What do people look
for in case studies?

How is it like working with you?

Decision making (Research & application)

Deliverables
Mistakes and Resolution

Process How did you grow because of that

They want to envision you working with them

How do I make a
case study?
Depends on you totally
Checkboxes
Have your unique style of potrayal

Go through a lot of good portfolios

Properly document while working

Should be enjoyable, useful, easy & accessible

Finding more

projects.

5 Cold mail+
5 Referral+
5 Design Communities on social
media.
Getting clients
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Choosing the

right project

for you portfolio.

, Mentor!

, Domains of Interes

, Further Growth Opportunitie!

, Not money
How many case
studies do I need in
my Portfolio?

2 really good projects in your domain + 


one secondary project


and showcase your other miscellaneous projects.

What
about
resumes?
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Porfolio is the most crucial part of the application.


All the things mentioned earlier will directly go into
your resumes.

Recruiters at times don’t look at your resumes.

 Portfolio
Shortlisting

Intern Task Round

This is optional.

season Interviews

Yayy or Nayy
The Results
Types of Interviews
Portfolio / Task
 HR Rounds Other Rounds
Presentation

The aim is to analyzing your design To judge the personality & assess Some companies may conduct
thinking and process and follow up whether or not one is a good fit for whiteboarding, live heuristics and
with a few questions. a specific role. think out loud exercises.
Outcomes are based on a lot
of other factors and not
particularly your skill.
Don’t doubt yourself. You’ll find your company during the season.

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