Internal Tools Are The Worst
One of the first pieces of career advice I received when looking for an internship in software development was to never, ever take an internship where the project is for internal use only. The conventional wisdom on this is so strong that companies often tout the lack of internal projects as a highlight of their…
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2015 Summer Interns: Learning Through Experience
Doug’s post from a couple weeks ago reminded me of one of the most interesting philosophies that I have seen to fruition during my time at Don’t Panic Labs. While we are always interested in engineers with a considerable amount of experience, we especially look for bright, young engineers that, regardless of inexperience, exhibit an…
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The Importance of Context in Engineering
People who know me understand how strongly I feel about experiential learning. I have often talked about how valuable I believe my own personal experiences are and how I feel they impact the way I see and approach problems. I even wrote a blog post talking about how challenging it can be to work with…
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Observations from the Backlog Management Team (aka Spencer Farley)
As the summer began to wind down, we asked that each intern team write about what they worked on, what they learned, and how this experience will affect the remainder of their formal education. In this post, Spencer Farley talks about how he – as a one-man team – spent the summer developing a backlog…
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Our Goals
When our summer interns started, I sat down with them to cover the nitty gritty details of what, why and how we do things at Don’t Panic Labs. I broke it down into three categories: our goals, what we value and what we expect. In what I envision as a series of posts, I’ll lay…
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Observations from the Beehive Mobile Intern Team
At the end of the summer, we asked each intern team write to about what they worked on, what they learned, and how this experience will affect the remainder of their formal education. This post is from the Mobile Beehive team embedded with Beehive Industries. Mobile Beehive team members are Avery Quandt and Tim Hoffman….
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Observations from the Coach Tablet Intern Team
As the summer begins to wind down for our intern teams, we asked that each one write about what their team worked on, what they learned, and how this experience will affect the remainder of their formal education. This post is from the Coach Tablet team embedded with EliteForm. Team members are Jed Dumire, Dalton…
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Observations from the Strength as a Service Intern Team
As the summer begins to wind down for our intern teams, we asked that each one write about what their team worked on, what they learned, and how this experience will affect the remainder of their formal education. This post is from the Strength as a Service (SaaS) team embedded with EliteForm. SaaS team members…
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What Are You Doing This Summer?
It’s not too hard to imagine summer with all the spring-like weather we’ve experienced during the past few weeks (the recent cold-snap not withstanding). But regardless of what the calendar says, it’ll be here before we know it. That means it’s time to start talking about our Summer Internship Experience we’ll be hosting again this…
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Of Internships and New Grads
Internships are new to us. In fact, hiring people straight out of college is new to us. Historically, we have built our teams by hiring experienced (or relatively experienced) people often via word of mouth recommendations. We have always been quite protective of our culture and the impact of bringing new people into our organizations….
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