Guide to Internships at Squarespace

Company Description

Squarespace allows users to create and design websites without previous technical knowledge. In general Squarespace is used primarily used to host blogs and personal websites.

General

• Industry: Internet, Design
• Founded: 2004
• Type: Privately Traded
• Headquarters: 225 Varick Street 12th Floor New York, NY 10014 United States
• Company Size: 500+ Employees
• Average Employee Age: 29
• Tech Stack: Java, Docker, Javascript, HTML, CSS, Node, Python, TensorFlow, MongoDB, Hadoop

How to get an interview?

• Apply Online
• Career Fairs: Columbia University, Harvard University
• Employee Referral

Internship Overview

• Application Opening: November
• Internship Locations: New York NY
• Internship Length: 12 weeks
• Housing Stipend: Corporate Housing
• Intern Class Size: 10

Interview Process

1. Over the phone technical interview with coding question over coderpad
2. Expect another interview with similar format to previous one
3. On site interview with both behavioral and technical interviews

Previous Intern Experiences

Full Stack Engineering Intern

• Craft user interfaces and hook them up with backened services (Java)

Mobile Engineering Intern

• Develop interfaces for both iOS and Andoird applications (Swift, Java)

Site Reliability Engineering Intern

• Fullfill tickets like fulltime engineers (Python, Java)

• Develop interfaces for both iOS and Andoird applications (Swift, Java)

Compensation Table

Recommended Resources:

• Squarespace Engineering Blog
• Initial Commit