Someone please PLEASEEE tell me how I can get an internship at Snapchat or Dropbox or any other well-known tech company!
Message me if you have a link or an email of someone I can contact.
Generally, intern positions are listed directly on a company’s website. For example:
DROPBOX: ===>> https://www.dropbox.com/jobs/all and then search for positions with the word “Intern” in them, like this one: ===>> https://www.dropbox.com/jobs/listing/91462
Use Google. That’s what I did!
FWIW: Most companies want college students for interns, as it’s a way of seeing if you and the company would be a good match for a job upon graduation. It’s practically impossible as a high school student to get an intern position, especially at a tech company like Dropbox, Snapchat etc.
In high school, during the summers, both my kids were camp counselors, waiters, busboys, file clerks etc. It was only as a rising junior and senior in college that my son and daughter were able to find internships.
@gibby thanks! do you by chance know if sending emails to project managers or executives at Dropbox, Google, etc. via LinkedIn could be successful? As in, emailing them about internships in their company?
And this is listed for Harvard why?
^^ good question.
Maria, why would anyone at Dropbox, Google etc hire a high school student as an intern when there are undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students, who have years more experience, applying for the same position? You can email project managers and executives all you like, but the answer is going to be the same – sorry, we’re looking for college students. The only time I have known of a high school student getting an internship is when their parent has directly worked for that company.
My son had a great tech internship in high school, and not through parents (who have little to offer in that direction, unfortunately). It would be very enterprising of you to e-mail project managers etc. but you might have more luck with a local company that has investment in local youth. Is there anyone at your school who you can talk with? Local rotary club? You get the idea…You can think of this summer as building experience so that eventually, maybe after sophomore or junior year of college, you can indeed intern at the companies you named in your post.