One of the ‘innovation’ which took place at iAccelerator was the initiation of Internships for college students with the Teams part of the Program. Most of companies here have hired interns for the duration of the program, some interns have already gone back to their cities to continue studying or take up a full time job with another company.
Kumar Abhishek was one such person, who came to Ahmedabad from Bangalore to Intern with Aplopio, a company building a Semantic Search Engine for Hiring Managers and Staffing Agencies.
He was involved in the core technology work for building this Engine and has obliged to send us a small note, sharing his experience working with the team at iAccelerator.
“I had my internship with a startup company Aplopio, a company being incubated at the Centre for Innovation Incubation and Entrepreneurship [CIIE] as part of the iAccelerator Program. I worked there for about one and a half months. The most appealing thing about the internship was the work that I had to do. It is a very interesting thing to work for a product right from scratch, for a company. I learnt new programming languages and a new web framework. I got a real exposure to the core corporate development work which I always wanted when I was in college. Other supporting factor was the environment, the people around me. Almost all of them had quite a lot of industry experience and were technology geeks. All had a fair amount of knowledge of their work areas. It was really an enjoyable experience being with such people and I was learning things all the time, whether I was writing code or just listening to them discus their future plans.
Moreover the air conditioned office and high speed internet was another factor which kept people working all the time. Even I used to work late nights learning more and more things. Those months proved to be more than a year for me in terms of learning experience and the kind of exposure I got.
All in all, it was a nice time being with them and I had a real learning experience. Hats off to the Centre for coming up with such a nice program called iAccelerator for internet and mobile based startups”
Some of the companies are still looking at hiring interns and full time employees. Please do get in touch with us on info@iaccelerator.org in case this is something which would excite you and you would like to work with one of the portfolio companies around the country.
We are open to hiring interns for our next batch, which starts from the 1st of December in Bangalore and the Internship positions will be updated on the Jobs Section of the iAccelerator Site.
If this does excite you, please do come back and have a look at the upcoming opportunities with our Portfolio Companies.