![]() ![]() “Toward the end of the summer, the Director of Innovation put together an Intern Summit to work on projects, development, and brainstorm,” Justine explains. The crazy part about this event is that the idea for it actually came out of another, earlier event, which Justine also won: the PayPal Intern Summit. Teams from around the world at PayPal compete to pitch different ideas that could change one of the PayPal products-and maybe even the world. “It just went live the other week, so now I can send it to my friends, which is really satisfying.” #2: Creating An Innovation Tournament-And Coaching The Winning TeamĪn innovation tournament is exactly what it sounds like. “We worked on the red cup emoji, which ended up winning the hack,” Justine says. The teams came up with so many emojis that, even though Justine and her team won, plenty of the ideas ended up being valuable in the long run. Not only was this an incredibly cool opportunity for Justine and her peers-but it was a great example of how innovative tech companies leverage teams with diverse backgrounds and functions to produce game-changing work. “They made it so that anyone, regardless of tech or creative experience, could participate,” she explains. Designed for interns of all functions, the hack teams were made up of PayPal interns from across various teams. The stuff of tech internship dreams, Justine and her fellow interns were all invited to participate in an “Emoji Hack” for Venmo-a nearly ubiquitous payment app that’s part of the PayPal family. We spoke to her about her experience at the global payments technology leader. Luckily for Justine-an intern-turned-employee at PayPal-she got to make memories doing all of the above in her summer internship on the business operations team. ![]() And sometimes you get to do work that really makes a difference at the company-and in the world. Others are important for your career because of the skills you learned or the connections you made. Some internships are memorable because of the friends you make. ![]()
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