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Field Notes on Starting an Intern Program - Ambrook

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I ran Ambrook’s first engineering internship this summer with a simple goal: Build a repeatable early-career pipeline. I’m a software engineer at Ambrook — joined two years ago — and I’d been wanting to bring on interns since the beginning. We’d hesitated in past years. Interns are an investment; as a small team we weren’t convinced we had the mentorship capacity, interview bandwidth, or project scaffolding to do it right. Last fall, I pitched the idea to the team: Treat it as a pilot, prove the value, and build something repeatable. We would bring on interns to ship real customer-facing work and establish a repeatable process we could scale for internal onboarding and early career recruiting. This summer we finally ran the experiment, setting out to bring on two engineering interns but ultimately bringing on one. I made a candidate guide, posted on LinkedIn and Twitter, and waited. I didn’t know what to expect, maybe a few hundred applications? Over 3,000 students applied between Dece

I ran Ambrook’s first engineering internship this summer with a simple goal: Build a repeatable early-career pipeline. I’m a software engineer at Ambrook — joined two years ago — and I’d been wanting to bring on interns since the beginning. We’d hesitated in past years. Interns are an investment; as a small team we weren’t convinced we had the mentorship capacity, interview bandwidth, or project scaffolding to do it right. Last fall, I pitched the idea to the team: Treat it as a pilot, prove the value, and build something repeatable. We would bring on interns to ship real customer-facing work

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