Interns
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Weisbrot: Founders must write product documentation themselves, not delegate to interns
“Don't have an intern do your documentation. You're the business owner. You're the product owner. You need to do your documentation. Because you are setting the standard. This is your company's culture that you're building right now. And if your culture is I'm …”
Wong: Converting an intern to full-time costs employers $50,000
“Each intern costs about 25,000 dollars to source, to train, and to compensate. And only about 50% of them convert to full time. So that means the real cost of converting an intern to a full time employee is 50,000 dollars.”
Rad: Tinder interns were promoted to run full teams within months
“Like, for me, I, like, we had, I mean, we had people who started a Tinder as an intern, and within a few months ended up running an entire team.”
Rabois: Most of the best people I have ever worked with started as interns
“Most of the best people I've ever worked with in my career were actually interns.”
Startups can outcompete tech giants for interns without matching their pay
“No matter what company you're at, whether it's large or small, you are able to compete with some of the biggest companies in the world for interns and for talent in general. And it doesn't have to be That you have to pay the intern more.”
Offering pair programming makes hiring tech interns significantly easier for startups
“We always had an easy easy opportunity to hire interns because interns always wanted a pair program because it's a great mentorship opportunity.”
Companies should apply identical confidentiality standards to interns and full-time employees
“I think that you have to really treat interns, contractors, full-times with the same level of confidentiality as anything else in your business, which probably means just explaining it, right?”