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Kicking Off Cloudflare’s Summer 2022 Internship Program

Post Syndicated from Ellie Jamison original https://blog.cloudflare.com/kicking-off-cloudflares-summer-2022-internship-program/

Kicking Off Cloudflare's Summer 2022 Internship Program

Kicking Off Cloudflare's Summer 2022 Internship Program

Fall is my favorite season for numerous reasons: the change in temperature, pumpkin spice flavored…everything, and of course, the start of the university recruitment cycle. I am excited to announce Cloudflare has begun hiring for our Summer 2022 internship program. We just opened many of our internship roles on our careers website and will begin reviewing applications on a rolling basis. We are looking for Software Engineer, Product Management, Research, Data Science interns and more. We also have a host of virtual events and tech talks to engage prospective students throughout October and November. Find our event lineup below and RSVP through the attached links by clicking on the event titles.

Session
Date Time
Inside Look: Hiring Software Engineering Interns and New Grads October 15, 2021 10:00-10:45 PT
Inside Look: Cloudflare’s Intern Hiring Process October 19, 2021 11:15-12:00 PT
Inside Look: Nativeflare October 27, 2021 10:45-11:30 PT
Inside Look: Cloudflare’s Intern Experiences October 28, 2021 13:00-13:45 PT
Inside Look: Cloudflare’s Culture November 11, 2021 13:00-13:30 PT

*We have many more events coming up later in the fall and early spring 2022, join our community here for news and updates from us!

In September, Cloudflare kicked off our fall university recruitment efforts by participating in the virtual Grace Hopper Celebration 2021 (#vGHC21) with a team of hiring managers and recruiters from various teams such as Software Engineering, Security, Research, and Product Management. We have sponsored this conference for years but this was our first experience participating virtually. We met and engaged with 1,000+ attendees through 1:1 conversations and tech talks in our virtual booth. Overall, we had an incredible experience with the virtual Grace Hopper Celebration this year and continue to be committed to hiring and providing opportunities for women at Cloudflare.

This upcoming summer, we expect to have the largest intern class ever at Cloudflare. We have more opportunities on more teams than in any previous summer. To learn more about our Engineering and Product internship opportunities, please check out this video from our hiring managers last fall. Many of our interns have written blog posts about their experiences working at Cloudflare. Check out Meyer Zinn’s blog post from this past summer. Our intern opportunities are not limited to technical roles, we have a host of internships for MBA and J.D. students, as well as those in non-technical majors such as our Communications Internship. We will be opening these opportunities later this fall and early spring 2022.

If you are interested in staying informed about our internships, virtual events and opportunities to engage with Cloudflare, feel free to sign up for email updates or join our community. We will be reviewing all applications on a rolling basis, so if you are waiting to hear back from us, please check out our blog or catch a segment on CloudflareTV to learn more about Cloudflare in the meantime.

How We Ran a Successful Remote Internship Program in 2020

Post Syndicated from Ellie Jamison original https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-we-ran-a-successful-remote-internship-program-in-2020and-how-we-are-planning-to-do-it-again-in-2021/

And how we are planning to do it again in 2021…

How We Ran a Successful Remote Internship Program in 2020

How We Ran a Successful Remote Internship Program in 2020

On March 5, I sat in a small conference room with a few key contributors in creating and hiring for the Cloudflare summer intern program. With the possibility of office shutdowns looming, the group discussed what an internship would look like without in-person mentorship. How would the managers cope? How would the interns cope? Would it even be worthwhile? After a few minutes of discussions, we settled on ‘absolutely’. A remote summer internship at Cloudflare would be worthwhile for students, mentors, buddies, and managers alike. After all, Cloudflare is an Internet company and we were ready to trust the Internet with a whole lot more than we had anticipated.

The months leading up to the summer were a blur, all I remember is that we did a lot of planning, interviewing and hiring. And I mean, a lot. On April 2, Matthew Prince announced that Cloudflare would be doubling the size of our 2020 intern class in response to other companies cutting their intern programs all together. Due to these cuts, many talented students lost their opportunities for the summer. We knew we couldn’t hire them all so we created a list of peer organizations actively hiring and a three-month webinar program to give all applicants (whether they joined Cloudflare or not) mentorship from our executive team.

The program kicked off on May 18 with our first intern orientation group of the summer. Over the next month and a half, they were joined by six more orientation groups bringing the total intern class to 90 students. Being remote had its advantages, we were able to welcome students from all over the world and on nearly every team at Cloudflare — from Product Management to Engineering to Legal. We were proud to host a diverse class with nearly half of the students being from an underrepresented gender identity or racial ethnic minority.

A question I hear often is, “How do you replicate the benefits from an in-person experience to a remote one?”. The short answer is “You don’t”, but you adapt and stay positive and creative to help bring benefits that otherwise wouldn’t exist for the students. Throughout last summer, we held weekly Zoom lunches, created bi-weekly newsletters to share the various intern projects, and hosted hour-long executive “fireside chats” for the interns to directly meet our executive team. We had a buddy program and a mentor program; opportunities for each intern to be paired with a Cloudflare employee outside of their team as well as on their team respectively. We celebrated “Intern Week” at the end of July to facilitate students from different teams, regions, and continents in getting to know each other. To end the program, we hosted five “Intern Presentation Sessions” where each intern presented virtually about their projects and experiences to a company-wide audience.

To gauge the success of the program, we asked the students to anonymously submit how they felt about their teams, projects, and the intern events. In answering the question, “Did your internship experience meet your overall expectations?”, we received a 100% “Yes” response and 98% of the interns would consider working for Cloudflare again. See below for specific comments.

How We Ran a Successful Remote Internship Program in 2020

Many of our interns also detailed their virtual experiences on The Cloudflare Blog including Selina Cho, who reflected on personal and professional growth during her Product Management internship. Kevin Frazier, a Legal intern highlighted the sense of community and inclusiveness as “a common thread woven throughout the internship experience.” Ryan Jacobs outlined his journey in discovering the process, problem and solution of how Cloudflare uses Cloudflare Spectrum during his internship on the Spectrum team. We are always grateful and eager to read what our interns have to say about their time at Cloudflare.

What’s next? Summer 2021, of course!

As we look ahead, we are planning for an even bigger intern class filled with more engaging programs, nurturing events, and challenging projects. This year we are thrilled to nearly double (again) our intern class size and hire talented students for the exciting summer ahead. If you are interested in applying to one of our summer internship opportunities, check out our Careers page under the “University” section or reach out directly to us at [email protected]. Special thanks to Judy Cheong, our Head of University Programs, the Executive team, the Recruiting team, and all intern hiring managers and mentors for not only making the remote internship program possible, but a success!