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I landed an Nvidia internship after sending out 200 applications. I learned Big Tech wasn't for me.
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TL;DR
- The author applied to 200-300 internships before securing one at Tesla, and repeated the process for an internship at Nvidia.
- The Nvidia internship was at the Redmond, Washington office, offering a smaller community but great mentors and reasonable work-life balance.
- Engineers at Nvidia were passionate about their work, treating it as a craft rather than just a job.
- The internship experience, while valuable, ultimately led the author to realize they wanted to build something of their own.
- The author cofounded Gale, an AI startup automating work visa applications, after their internship and while still in school.
- Gale was accepted into Y Combinator and raised $2.7 million in seed funding.
- Nvidia's culture of learning from mistakes without blame influenced the author's approach to founding Gale.