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Startup Internship AMA

Devansh and Dario on recruiting for AI startups, why the startup process is so much less structured than on-cycle, and what worked for them.

Recruiting · Startups · AI

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April is when startup internship recruiting actually happens, and it runs on completely different rules than the structured on-cycle process. It is less predictable, much more just-in-time, and largely invisible if you are sitting around waiting for a posting to appear. That gap is exactly why we ran this one. We put Devansh and Dario in front of the first years to talk through how they recruited for AI startups the year before, what worked, what did not, and what their summers actually looked like once they landed.

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