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How to Land a UX Design internship at a Top Tech Company
In this post, I reveal patterns and findings from mentoring and helping students get design internships at tech companies
Background 🧑🏾💻
“Don’t work on projects for the sake of shelving them on your portfolio. They will accumulate dust and will get rusty due to lack of care. Instead, let your projects be an extension of yourself. Let them represent what you stand for as an individual as this point of time.”
— Mackenzie Derival
Back in January 2017, I was in my room alone watching design YouTube videos and working on design side-projects. I never thought that 3 years later, I would be hosting design workshops at UWaterloo and get cold-emailed by students trying to replicate what I accomplished. That’s why I dedicated my last year of University to helping students bring their design career to the next level. (Full Blog Post)
As a result, I mentored and helped roughly 20 students land internships at big tech companies and startups. By helping people from various backgrounds land internships, I was able to notice various patterns across people and companies. In this article, I will reveal some of my findings.
