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Working at a Start Up

Location: United States Experience Type: Virtual Experience Courses

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This program, based on real work, will teach you the skills you need to build web applications for top startups.

Y Combinator alumni have included AirBnb, Reddit, Dropbox and Coinbase – and every six months they invest in the next generation of world-changing companies. These companies are always looking for great engineering talent to help them create the future.

In this program, you’ll train yourself working for a hypothetical startup that is developing productivity tools for the shipping industry. By doing so, you’ll get practical experience and skills – such as full-stack engineering – YC startups are looking for today.

As you do this program, you may upload your work and profile. You may then forward this to YC to view and forward to their startups. You can do this course without having your profile seen by YC as well – letting you experiment and learn for fun.

How it works

 

Regardless of your background, university, or what you’re studying, you can upskill for working at a YC startup as an intern, for free, today. 
 

This program is self-paced. It takes approximately 5-6 hours to complete.

Skills Learned:

  • Working Fullstack – Frontend updates based on feedback
    Help update the frontend of a new productivity tool for shipping

    • React
    • Front-end engineering
    • Web applications
  • Working Fullstack – Backend updates for new features
    Implement the backend changes for the new productivity tool

    • Web applications
    • NodeJS
  • Analytics – Analyze the latest feature releases
    Check the stats to see whether the latest update has moved metrics

    • Analyzing user data
    • Analyzing user tickets
  • Improve your application to YC internship program
    View some strong example applications and learn how to tailor your message to specific startups

    • Communication
    • Determination

Experience Information

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Y Combinator
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TH Thursday 8:30am - 5:00pm 7:00am - 3:00am
F Friday 8:30am - 5:00pm 7:00am - 3:00am
S Saturday   7:00am - 3:00am
SU Sunday   7:00am - 3:00am

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