Comments on: BrightMix 2008 Summer Internship Program!

By: Internship - Deadline soon approaching! | BrightMix

Internship - Deadline soon approaching! | BrightMix — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 05:52:24 +0000

[...] have had quite an enormous response to our first annual summer internship program. Soon, we will be calling people to schedule interviews and to make our final decisions. There are [...]

By: Other Great Internship Programs | BrightMix

Other Great Internship Programs | BrightMix — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 05:51:58 +0000

[...] make no bones about borrowing ideas from other successful companies, and our most recent idea – the internship program – is no exception. For those unfamiliar, I thought I’d take a minute to outline some of the [...]

By: BrightMix 2008 Summer Internship Launched! | BrightMix

BrightMix 2008 Summer Internship Launched! | BrightMix — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 05:48:47 +0000

[...] and behold, our Summer Internship Program has started! We’re happy to welcome aboard Allyn, Robert, and Erin #2 (and arguably Andy, who [...]

By: Internship Outing - Bowling! | BrightMix

Internship Outing - Bowling! | BrightMix — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 05:48:12 +0000

[...] back in January when we first announced the BrightMix Internship Program, one of the core principles for the Internship was that we wanted to have fun! In fact, fun outings [...]

By: MikeH

MikeH — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 03:08:00 +0000

I’d like to tell everyone that $650 is a lot more than I got for my "internship" in college. And we didn’t get lunch, either!!

By: Dusty

Dusty — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 03:08:00 +0000

Mike, thanks for your comment. I’m glad to hear that its more than you got paid, though money is just one component of our program. Did you actually *enjoy* your internship? One of the things that we run into an awful lot, is people who had internships and down-right _hated_ them. They got stuck in a corner, had limited internet access, and worked on boring stuff.

It seems that this is pretty much the norm, around Omaha anyway. We’re trying to set ourselves apart from the crowd (yet again). We hope that in doing so, we can find some truly talented people.

By: Michael Gubbels

Michael Gubbels — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 03:08:00 +0000

I recently got an e-mail from my undergrad adviser about this opportunity, and after poking around your site and looking through some photos of the place, I’m really excited about the possibility of an internship. I’m going to get on applying as soon as I can.

By: MikeH

MikeH — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 03:08:00 +0000

Can I answer 10 days later?

I have great memories of my internship. The pay was bad, but the work was invaluable. I use that knowledge all the time, and I’m still in contact with the people I worked with. We were given a lot of real responsibility — root on Unix server, changing configs on Cisco routers.

So, BrightMix — give your interns something valuable, something real, and sometime challenging to do.

By: Dusty

Dusty — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 03:08:00 +0000

@Michael G – Thanks for your interest in the internship! We look forward to your application…

@MikeH – You can answer anytime you want! That’s fantastic that you had a pretty positive internship experience. I think responsibility matters a LOT. We want to hire talented and smart people, and give them the chance to OWN a project, and SHIP SOFTWARE. That’s what’s fun I think.. and it’s challenging.. and is exactly what we’re looking to do.

By: Christina B

Christina B — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 03:08:00 +0000

Ive never had any experience internship wise, i submitted my resume and hope that you like what you see. the internship for designer sounds awesome.