- Google has more than 1,000 tech interns who are actively contributing to open-source projects.
- This is the first time Google’s internship program is going to be held with virtually multiple projects focused on open-source projects.
Thanks to Google’s open-source projects, thousands of interns will join Google from home, in 43 countries, for their summer internship programs. This is the first time Google’s internship program is going to be held with virtually multiple projects focused on open-source projects.
Google said that while many aspects of its internship programs will remain the same as they always have been, the company will have to make some adjustments. And the primary of these adjustments is that interns will not get to work next to experienced Googlers in a traditional office environment. And it can affect the kind of projects they work on, Google says.
So what does open source mean here? Open source is a model that makes the underlying code of a product available for everyone to work on. Interns will not have access to some technical resources, but will still be able to work on projects.
Google has been contributing to open-source for some time, with projects such as Android and Chromium being its two primary sources. In the last twenty years, Google has released thousands of open source projects and 2,600 of them are still active and working on them.
Interns will contribute to projects such as TensorFlow, Kubernetes, Istio, Chromium, Apache Beam, and OSS-Fuzz on Google’s Summer Internship. They will also tackle projects that support Kovid-19 response efforts, including integrating Kovid-19 data into the data commons, and contributing to the Kovid Severity project.