November 4, 2021 by Hanh Nguyen and Tameesh Biswas

Talk Summary: Internships are a great way to get industry experience. On the other hand, companies use internships to attract and recruit talented new graduates. Interns that stand out could turn their internships into return offers. Many of them are hired permanently upon completion of their internship or education. What should you prepare to maximize your chances of converting an internship to a full-time job offer? In this talk, we’ll have two of our past Product and Engineering interns walk us through their internship experiences at Yelp and offer some key takeaways on how they converted their internships into full time roles.

Speaker: Hanh Nguyen

Hanh is a product manager at Yelp where she drives the product strategy and roadmap for partners who manage Yelp pages on behalf of local business owners. Prior to Yelp, she received her master’s degree in technology management (big data and business analytics major) at Bocconi University, Italy. During this time, she joined Yelp as the first product management intern in Germany in 2019 and received a return offer to become a full-time product manager in 2020. She is currently based out of Germany and will relocate to London in December 2021 to join Yelp’s growing product team in the UK. Hanh is also an advocate for diversity and inclusion, especially for women in tech.

Speaker: Tameesh Biswas

Tameesh is a backend software engineer on our Multi-location Business team that works with Yelp partners and internal tools. Before joining Yelp full-time, he was pursuing a bachelor’s degree in computer science from the Indian Institute of Technology Patna, during which he interned as a software engineer at Yelp out of their Hamburg, Germany office over the summer of 2019.

Moderator: Nadine Fong

Nadine is a recruiting operations specialist on our Technical Recruiting team. Having been with Yelp for the past 6 years, she's held various roles that oversee the logistics of recruiting, including coordination, working with engineering and product interns, and now collecting, analyzing, and maintaining the Tech Talent team’s data. Helping coworkers connect has been a big part of her goals during her time at Yelp — for example, organizing traditional office socialization in the remote world (like internal trivia nights) to co-leading a new Employee Resource Group have been the latest ways of fostering and promoting inclusion on top of her day-to-day work.

About Yelping From Home:

Yelp’s mission is to connect people with great local businesses, and two of the teams working behind the scenes to make that happen are our five star engineering and product teams.

Playing an active role in our community is a value that we have strongly prioritized over the years. Typically we would invite you to come to Yelp’s HQ to network, grab a slice of ‘za, and learn about the technology and culture behind Yelp. With stay-at-home orders across the globe, Yelp (like many of you) has had no choice but to adapt to these changes. We understand that this is a strange and challenging time for many, so we’d like to invite you to join us as we navigate this new normal for the tech community together.

To stay connected, create space for folks to collaborate and share some of the things Yelp has been working on, we are launching our very own virtual tech talk series. This series of talks will feature Yelpers from engineering and product and will focus on themes such as career development, technical skills, workplace challenges and Yelp’s response to COVID-19.