Guide to Internships at Uptake

Company Description

Uptake is a predictive analytics platform that provides solutions when given sets of data. In specific, Uptake has commonly find solutions within the healthcare and insurance industries.

General

• Industry: Analytics
• Founded: 2014
• Type: Privately Traded
• Headquarters: 600 W Chicago Ave #620, Chicago, IL 60654 United States
• Company Size: 500+ Employees
• Average Employee Age: 30
• Tech Stack: Python, Java, Cassandra, Nifi, Kafka, Docker

How to get an interview?

• Apply Online
• Career Fairs: University of Chicago, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Carnegie Mellon, Northwestern, University of Michigan, Harvard, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
• Employee Referral

Internship Overview

• Application Opening: Late September
• Internship Locations: Chicago IL
• Internship Length: 10 weeks
• Housing Stipend: $1000 monthly
• Intern Class Size: 35

Interview Process

1. HR interview to gauge culture fit
2. Given a technical/software design project to complete within a week
3. One hour technical/product interview with Product Strategy Lead
4. Two 45-minute onsite interviews with product managers

Previous Intern Experiences

Technical Product Intern

• Create VB macros and JQL queries to centralize product resources
• Design onboarding documentation and led engineering teams for frontend and backend feature development.

Data Science Intern

• Drive data ingestion accuracy by writing scripts that validated incoming data with respect to the backend APIs.

Compensation Table

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