diff --git a/contents/blog/internship.md b/contents/blog/internship.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..09fc8fc585b2 --- /dev/null +++ b/contents/blog/internship.md @@ -0,0 +1,56 @@ +--- +date: 2024-09-06 +title: Win an internship at PostHog and $25K +rootPage: /blog +sidebar: Blog +showTitle: true +hideAnchor: true +featuredImage: >- + https://res.cloudinary.com/dmukukwp6/image/upload/posthog.com/contents/images/blog/migrating-hog.png +featuredImageType: full +category: Inside PostHog +--- + +For the first time _ever_ we are looking to hire 3 interns at PostHog. We very, very rarely hire people with no experience so this is a huge opportunity to join a genuinely world class tech team at a company that is rocketing in growth. + +Competition will be fierce, this is how to get a spot. + +## Criteria + +* You must have less than 1 year of professional experience as a software developer (!) +* You must be based between GMT+2 to GMT-8 + +## The competition + +Between today and the 30th of September, we are looking for the best new product to be built into PostHog. + +You can build _whatever_ you want. We have plenty of public info in terms of what we care about. + +We are looking for: + +* products we could actually ship to real users (our strategy: ["to provide every tool needed to build successful products"](https://posthog.com/handbook/why-does-posthog-exist#provide-every-tool-needed-to-build-successful-products)) +* things that have an impressive amount of scope + +Go nuts - build a CRM, build a customer support, or something else. + +## Rules + +* We will offer up to the best 3 submissions a (well paid) internship at PostHog and $25K (USD) +* You need to accept the intership to receive the cash prize. The internship will be well paid. +* If we don't get any good submissions, we may award no one, but think that's very unlikely +* We own your work - we may even choose to ship your prouct for real. +* You must tell us roughly how much work you put into it to the nearest half a day +* You must publish your work as a fork of [PostHog](https://github.com/PostHog/posthog). + +## The internship + +* We will have you do 3 months of paid work with us. We'll pay you in line with a junior role on our public pay calculator. +* We will interview you ahead of accepting you as an intern. +* If you are successful, we will extend a full time offer to you to join as a full stack engineer afterwards. + +## Submission + +* Please create a PR to the PostHog main repo (github.com/posthog/posthog) with your submission by midnight the 30th of September. +* Please also send us your resumé and/or LinkedIn profile +* You _must_ include a loom video talking us through what you built +