CSallday Posted February 4, 2014 Share Posted February 4, 2014 How common is it for someone in a PhD program to do summer software engineering internships? Are PhD students expected to work during the summer, or do they get the summer off for things such as internships? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dat_nerd Posted February 4, 2014 Share Posted February 4, 2014 Leaving for a software engineering internship is, in my experience, uncommon. However, a summer research internship is not uncommon at all. Most students in my program are advised to intern at a research lab at least once, maybe twice, over the course of their PhD. If we're not interning during the summer, then we're either teaching or continuing research. It's a good question to ask your advisor -- how frequently do they recommend that you intern? Or, if you're not attending a PhD program yet, ask students at the schools you visit. They can give you an idea of what's expected at their program. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Icydubloon Posted February 4, 2014 Share Posted February 4, 2014 About 3/4 of people in my current lab have interned at Google, Facebook, Microsoft, etc. as a non-research software engineer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dat_nerd Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 About 3/4 of people in my current lab have interned at Google, Facebook, Microsoft, etc. as a non-research software engineer. Interesting! I hadn't heard of that. What research field are you in? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Icydubloon Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 Interesting! I hadn't heard of that. What research field are you in? Machine learning. The new Data Scientist industry role caters perfectly to ML/big data students. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeleteMePlease Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 (edited) Does this differ from institution to institution? I am doing a lot of internships in my undergrad studies and I think it has benifited me a lot. There are also small projects that I brought to my schools from my employers. I would really like to continue this in my doctrol studies as I want to go into distributed systems and networks, which is very practical field imho. Edited February 5, 2014 by GermanStudent Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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