Guide to Internships at MailChimp

Company Description

Mailchimp is an email marketing automation platform. Customers can track email analytics such as click ratio over MailChimp’s platform. MailChimp is currently working on a platform to connect and derive analytics of E-Commerce sites.

General

• Industry: Marketing
• Founded: 2001
• Type: Privately Traded
• Headquarters: 675 Ponce de Leon Ave NE Suite 5000 Atlanta, GA 30308 United States
• Company Size: 500+ Employees
• Average Employee Age: 30
• Tech Stack: Python, Javascript, Postgres, Redis, Kafka

How to get an interview?

• Apply Online
• Career Fairs: Georgia Institute of Technology
• Employee Referral

Internship Overview

• Application Opening: October
• Internship Locations: Atlanta GA
• Internship Length: 12 weeks
• Housing Stipend: $2000 for the summer
• Intern Class Size: 20

Interview Process

1. Over the phone with engineer to disucss past experiences
2. One hour Skype and coderpad interview
3. Final interview is over Skype with multiple engineers focussed on technical knowledge of internship position instead of white board coding

Previous Intern Experiences

Software Development Intern

• Refactor views and controllers to make MailChimp architecture uniform
• Prototype layouts using inhouse library pattern

Product Design Intern

• Utilize A/B testing data to explore new testing techniques
• Design modular components to share templates for MailChimp application

Compensation Table

Recommended Resources:

• MailChimp Engineering Blog