Internship Experience At Replit | Replit

Replit — Internship Experience At Replit Blog - News Internship Experience At Replit Sat, Jun 24, 2023 Updated at: Thu, Oct 5, 2023 Nathan Pham Hey! I'm Nathan. It's been a short but exciting few months at Replit, and I wanted to share my experience with you all. The Journey Begins I started programming back in 2018. An empty GitHub activity chart Since then, I’ve met fantastic people, learned new stuff, and made a lot of wacky projects. What I did not expect was a technical recruiter to reach out to me through Twitter. > Hey Nathan, ... I'm a technical recruiter at Replit. ... Would you be interested in learning more about the opportunity? I know. I really can't believe it either. It goes without saying I am incredibly fortunate to have had this opportunity. What did I do Code Search (or Find & Replace or whatever we end up calling it) was my primary project. Even though I was supposed to be working on it, I still stuck my hands in a lot of other places. Honestly, one of the main benefits to working and using Replit was being able to fix something on the spot (hey maybe you should come apply too!) - Repl Resources: display resource usage; had to revisit & polish quite a few times - Repl Badges: embed custom badges into READMEs (https://replit.com/badge) - Jupyter Notebook Viewer: experimenting with the extension developer workflow - And lots of polish all over the place (Repl DB, packages, old Git, some RUI components) Although I’ve touched on a lot of random aspects of Replit’s codebase, the engine (just the front-end mind you) that keeps Replit moving is overwhelmingly large. I still have no idea on how everything works. Challenges I Faced Working 8 hours a day after school is hard. If you're wondering how I managed to balance this, I just did what I could (I worked 4 hrs on some days shhh). Unfortunately, my late hours translated into missing out on a lot of interesting internal events - just trying to catch the Weekly Wins on Fri