Intern in Software Development

Applications for summer 2006 internships were due February 1, 2006
and are NO LONGER BEING ACCEPTED.
Please keep us in mind for Summer 2007!

Are you a college student looking for a summer internship in the software industry? Fog Creek Software is the place for you! Founded by software guru Joel Spolsky of Joel on Software fame, Fog Creek Software is a small and friendly startup that's growing fast: we bootstrapped the company without any outside investments, have been profitable from the beginning, and have more than doubled our sales every year.

Last summer, a small team of four interns built a completely new product from the ground up. You can read about their experiences on the Project Aardvark Blog. By the end of the summer, they had launched Fog Creek Copilot to paying customers.

Summer InternshipMost internships consist of work-tv-sleep-work-tv-sleep for a whole summer, with a scintillating July 4th picnic to break the monotony. With a Fog Creek internship, you're not going to want a TV and you'll have to decide between sleeping and checking out the latest nightclub, restaurant, or show. That's not because we demand long hours ... we generally work 40 hour weeks. It's because we're located in New York City, so when coding gets boring, you can sneak out to the Metropolitan Museum, a Broadway show, or a trendy club to find inspiration. Don't worry, you can sleep when you're 80.

Fog Creek Software started in September 2000 based on the simple idea that if we built a company that was a great place to work, we would be able to attract great talent. Our summer internship program allows talented college students to learn about the software industry from the inside in the most exciting city in the world.

Summer Internship in Software Development

As a Fog Creek Summer Intern in Software Development you will be given a real project to work on that will ship as a part of one of our products. You will receive mentoring from the team at Fog Creek, and learn about the software development industry from the experts. We're a small company, so you'll see everything that goes into software ... not just code, but testing, marketing, sales, documentation, customer support, and user interface design... stuff you would never learn at a bigger company. In the past, one intern wrote a complete ASP to PHP compiler, which allowed us to port our flagship product to Unix. He learned Java, ASP, and PHP in one summer and wrote an industrial-strength compiler from beginning to end in two months. Another intern wrote Bayesian Filtering code to filter spam and sort FogBugz email messages into areas automatically. He read dozens of academic papers, figured out an algorithm, and implemented it in our code -- along with a comprehensive test suite. At Fog Creek Software, we'll give you a big project and we'll expect you to deliver something great.

Summer Internship in Software Marketing

As a Fog Creek Summer Intern in Software Marketing you'll be given a marketing project working on a real software product at a real software company. You'll be given the freedom to work independently and we'll expect real results! Typical projects might include creating marketing collateral, doing a competitive analysis of one of our products, or experimenting with direct marketing. We'll expect you to be able to work independently and do a thorough job at whatever you do. You should be a great writer, have some programming experience, and know how to use basic statistical tools.

Sounds like your kind of job? Apply today! Applications are due February 1, 2006, and we usually receive hundreds of applications, so we absolutely positively will not consider applications received after that date.

Absolutely non-negotiable requirements:

  • Excellent command of written and spoken English
  • Currently enrolled in a 4 year academic institution. Preference will be given to students between their Junior and Senior years.
  • Top grades or a track record of success
  • Permanent legal right to work in the United States. Because student visas (J1, F1, etc) are time-limited, we regret that we can't consider interns on student visas.

For the Software Development internships:

  • Significant coursework in Computer Science (major not required)
  • Top notch computer programming skills. During the interview we'll give you some coding problems and you will blow us away with your brilliant solutions.

For the Software Marketing internships:

  • Coursework in marketing or business experience.
  • Some experience with computer programming.
  • Strong knowledge of statistics. 

Benefits:

    • Weekly stipend of $750
    • Free housing in an area dorm (usually with private rooms)
    • Free gym membership
    • Free MetroCard (gets you on any bus or subway in New York)
    • Free soft drinks
    • Free lunches
    • Free weekly social events. 2005 events included attending a Yankees game, a boat trip around Manhattan, walking tours, museum trips, two Broadway shows, a movie opening, and parties.

    Etc.:

    • Position is in our office in New York City. No telecommuting.
    • Tentative dates for our 2006 summer internships: May 21 to August 5 (this may change depending on housing availability, and we can be flexible if your academic calendar requires it).

    Applications for summer 2006 internships were due February 1, 2006
    and are NO LONGER BEING ACCEPTED.
    Please keep us in mind for Summer 2007!

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      Fog Creek Software, Inc. does not discriminate in employment matters on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, military service eligibility, veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, or any other protected class. We support workplace diversity.

      To apply, please email us at jobs (at) fogcreek (dot) com, attaching a current resume in HTML, Word, Plain Text or PDF format. In the body of the email, explain why you would be a good fit for this job. If you have a website, send us the URL.