Advice on getting a return offer after amazon internship
Feb 24, 2018
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I am interning at Amazon and it's a 12 week internship while I am in my 3rd week now.
I wana do well and get a return offer. Any must dos? Would appreciate if Amazonians could lend some advice here.
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Ask your mentor questions, but don’t ask them too many. Really research what you have a question about, and make sure you’ve exhausted all internal and external resources.
Also while awaiting more work or reviews, look at what your teammates are working on. Become familiar with other people’s project as that can become content used in discussions and stuff. Show interest in everything your team does.
Finally, really research who your customers are. What do they need and want? Based on tickets, what seems to be problems they’ve encountered? Be very familiar with customer interaction with your service or product.
And have fun, it’s a really good opportunity :)
Work Hard
Keep your commitments
Learn how to Communicate clearly and succinctly – some call this Speak Up – in my experience people listen when you have a strong belief in your idea and can communicate it well
a. Understand your audience and prepare for the questions/concerns they will have
b. Be sure to give a recommendation – do not bring a problem without having thought of some potential solutions including the pros and cons
c. Share information (as appropriate)
Ask for what you want
Also they will review your code reviews, number of lines of code you wrote, what kind of comments you received on your code reviews. How much hand holding was involved. The idea is to see if you can survive on your own if you return as full time employee.
I was an intern and got return offer. I have been mentor to a few interns and sat in those hiring decision meeting.
I would argue against “take work off your mentors plate”. If you get your project done and accomplish your stretch goals you’ll be in a good position.
What I found to success is to have someone that will pull you along. Having a manager that trusts you and want to promote you is key. If that person gets advanced and moves on, they will want to bring you with them.
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