I thought about my brief experience with interns recently with a project I needed a little help on. Add in the fact that they were expected to do a presentation on their specific project at the end of the summer, and the whole thing ended up being a lot more work for me than if I had just done the whole project myself. But two months is a very tight timeframe, and getting them up to speed took up most of that time.
The interns were both great kids, very smart, and I learned a lot from them. The experience didn’t turn out quite like I expected. It was more work than I could manage on my own, so management thought they’d take mercy on me and get me some help. The idea, as I understood it, was to get someone to help me with my project, which at the time was standing up a distributed data capture system with a large number of nodes all running custom software that I wrote, reporting back to a central server running more of my code. This was a long time ago, long enough that the fresh-faced college students who applied for the gig are probably now creeping up to retirement age. Back when I used to work in the pharma industry, I had the opportunity to hire summer interns.
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