College Intern Technical Challenges

Below is a series of technical challenges that we ask you to complete within 90 minutes.

Complete each one before proceeding to the next.

You are expected to do as much as you can as well as you can using all the resources at your disposal (i.e. think “open book”, because that’s how the world of work operates).

College Intern Technical Challenges

This form delivers the technical challenges for the college intern program.

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  • For your topic, discuss the importance of making sure that you test any system with data that is both expected and unexpected to provide a better user experience. Consider a system that allows email addresses to be imported and does not check for properly formatted email and then attempts to send a confirmation message. There are impacts to the system and to the user and to the developer.
    Tips:
    • Do not overthink this. Set a goal of planning and recording in 15 minutes and uploading to YouTube in 5 minutes.
    • Less content with better organization and explanation beats a rushed "data dump." Take a breath and just talk.
    • We expect a selfie, not a professional video shoot. Just make sure that you are centered in the frame and the background is not too bright (have light sources, like the sun, in front, not behind you) nor too busy/noisy. 
    • Be clear, concise, and casual, as if you were helping a friend with a project in an area that you have a lot of background knowledge. 
    • Make sure you designate the video as "private" access so that only those with the link may view it.
    To Complete
    Copy and paste the short YouTube link in the field below, then click Next.