There is a related document on the general hiring process. Even though that is primarily oriented towards industry hires, it is strongly recommended reading as most of the basic principles apply equally to interns - especially in regards to the desirable characteristics we look for in good hires. The recommended reading list in that document is an excellent resource for people who are new to hiring in general.
...
Each intern is paired with an employee mentor who will guide, assign, supervise and evaluate their work throughout their internship. Think of the intern as a less experienced extension of yourself - and this may not be for everyone. This means a real time commitment on the part of the mentor, and thus emphasis is on candidates that self-organize and self-motivate (see the hiring document). Realistically each employee can only work with one intern at a time, so this also enforces an inherent upper limit on how many interns we can employ.
...
Some notable past Tidepool Interns and their projects
Maya Friedman shared a collaboration with Amanda Jo Fisher (Deactivated) and Former user (Deleted) about menstruation and diabetes (data).
Tejasvi Desai (Deactivated) shared an overview of her work and what she learned as a Product Manager Intern.
In her first summer (as a high school student) Eden Grown-Haeberli made improvements to our marketing website, as well as documenting the entire process. In her second summer, she wrote additional tools that launched the Tidepool Big Data Donation program. She was mentored by Lennart, and is now a student at Stanford.
Courtenay Huffman did front end work in React, mentored by Clint. We found Courtenay through the JDRF internship program.
Karina Goot wrote dfaker, a test data generator, mentored by Jana. She went on to be a site reliability engineer at Google, and is now at Lyft.
In his first summer, Ethan Look wrote the first version of Tidepool Mobile for iOS (formerly known as Blip Notes, without really having a mentor, which wasn't great…). In his next summer, he wrote command line data tools that later turned into the TBDDP, mentored by Brandon. He's now at Google.
Michael Pangburn is a Loop iOS developer, being mentored by Pete, and is a student at Cal Poly SLO. He's interned with Apple Summer 2019, and is now back with Tidepool Fall 2019-Spring 2020, then is returning full time to Apple.
Nancy Kao, a design intern, produced this awesome video. She was mentored by Sara Krugman.
After graduating from high school, Anna Quinlan wrote PyLoopKit, a Python port of the Loop algorithm, and developed it into a great tool for simulating and visualizing different scenarios. She was mentored in parts by Ed, Pete, and Lennart, and is now a student at Stanford.
JP Reilly, a student at Stanford, prototyped the web UI for prescription flow. He was mentored by Thacher and Kelly.
...
Back to: Tidepool Employee Handbook (WIP)
Proceed to: Tidepool Offer Letter