Guide to Internships at Nest

Company Description

Nest is creating smart home gadgets. Starting with a thermostat Nest has now released security cameras and smoke detectors. Nest Labs was acquired by Google for $3.2 billion in 2014, and has went through some restructuring to shuffle some of its engineers into Google teams.

General

• Industry: Home Automation
• Founded: 2010
• Type: Parent Company Alphabet, Privately Traded
• Headquarters: 3400 Hillview Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304 United States
• Company Size: 1000+ Employees
• Average Employee Age: 31
• Tech Stack: C++, Python, Scala, Javascript, Html, CSS

How to get an interview?

• Apply Online
• Career Fairs: Stanford University
• Employee Referral

Internship Overview

• Application Opening: December
• Internship Locations: Palo Alto CA
• Internship Length: 12 weeks
• Housing Stipend: Corporate Housing
• Intern Class Size: 55

Interview Process

1. A one hour technical interview scheduled over Skype and Collabedit
2. After this round, another one hour technical interview scheduled over Skype and Collabedit

Previous Intern Experiences

Software Engineering Intern

• Create internal tools to expand automation infrastructure
• Work on machine learning system to keep homes at an ideal temperature

UX Engineering Intern

• Build Ruby gems to illustrate living styleguide
• Create holidat promotions (Html, Sass, Javascript)

UI/UX Design Intern

• Create motion designing with visual storyboarding
• Create icon designs for new products
• Create designs and animations for iOS and Android Nest application

Compensation Table

Recommended Resources:

• Nest Blog