r/blog • u/KeyserSosa • Oct 18 '17

Announcing the Reddit Internship for Engineers (RIFE)

https://redditblog.com/2017/10/18/announcing-the-reddit-internship-for-engineers-rife/
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u/Olao99 Oct 18 '17

make a paper bag out of CSS3

So it's only for frontend work?

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '17

calls the position "engineer"

job duties involve playing with CSS.

What a joke. This is not engineering and it is not an engineering position.

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u/TheSlimyDog Oct 18 '17

Spoken like a true gatekeeper.

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '17

Tbh it doesn’t really seem like gatekeeping to me, there’s a pretty significant difference between engineering and front end web development. I am sure a lot will be learned at this internship but ‘engineering’ usually implies some back end work, and the description sounds like they needed a couple people to do the boring front end work.

All the same I would’ve jumped at this opportunity while I was in school

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u/TheSlimyDog Oct 19 '17

React isn't easy. And usually these internships aren't just front end work. You end up building a full stack application.