Work Location : Mountain View, CA, USA
Here sounds something interesting which comes from the Quora
Team about the internship!
“A Quora internship
is not an ordinary internship. There's no busy work. Every project that our
interns work on is important to the company and its goals.”
What you’re expected
to do?
Interns play an important role in
this, as they work alongside full-time employees as equals, working on the same
projects that help drive the company and product forward. We expect interns to
become valuable contributors to the team, as they work hand-in-hand with people
ranging from engineering to design to business development.
We also realize that mentorship
is important to allow interns to grow and develop skills in areas which they're
looking to improve. For example, every intern will have a fulltime engineer as
a mentor and weekly 1:1s with their managers to get feedback and ensure things
are going well. We also emphasize code reviews and hold weekly engineering tech
talks to maintain high code quality and to optimize for learning the best
engineering practices.
Things they look for
include:
Pursuing a degree in Computer Science or a related field.
Past internship experience isn't important to us
Extraordinary software engineering talent
Knowledge of Python, JavaScript, C++, or the ability to
learn a language quickly
Love of the Quora product
Experience with web applications, databases, distributed
systems, and machine learning a plus
Passion for learning and always improving yourself and the
team around you
To give you a taste of what interns could do at Quora, here
are some projects interns have worked on in the past:
Integrated with YouTube, to allow users to embed videos in
their answers
Integrated with Google Maps to allow users to specify a
location for a topic, enhancing the Nearby feature of the iPhone app
Implemented threaded comments to enable higher-quality
discussion
Improved the related questions suggested to users on a
question page, to increase discovery and engagement
Investigated moving application code to run on pypy, to
improve the speed of the site
In the future, interns can expect to work on the same
projects as fulltime engineers, which include:
Product features: Building a powerful rich-text editor,
invite and follow suggestions, incentives for users to answer questions, or
other features to help the product grow
Quality: Improving the ranking of content throughout the
site, such as users via graph algorithms like PageRank or recommending topics
and people for users to follow
Feed: Designing user homepage feeds to be fast but also
relevant, optimizing to show the best content based on voting, views,
diversity, social graph, and other ranking signals
Search: Architecting our real-time search backend and
improving relevancy for navigational searches across questions, topics, and
users
Site speed: Making Quora fast with a variety of initiatives
across view-level code, client- and server-side caching, and more
Mobile: Designing APIs and building iPhone and Android
applications for Quora
Infrastructure: Scaling, automating, and monitoring our site
architecture and continuous deployment systems hosted on EC2
Moderation tools: Designing and building tools to help
moderators and power users review and moderate content on the site at scale.
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