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Working at a Start Up

Location: United States
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This program, based on real work, will teach you the skills you need to build web applications for top startups.

Y Combinator alumni have included AirBnb, Reddit, Dropbox and Coinbase – and every six months they invest in the next generation of world-changing companies. These companies are always looking for great engineering talent to help them create the future.

In this program, you’ll train yourself working for a hypothetical startup that is developing productivity tools for the shipping industry. By doing so, you’ll get practical experience and skills – such as full-stack engineering – YC startups are looking for today.

As you do this program, you may upload your work and profile. You may then forward this to YC to view and forward to their startups. You can do this course without having your profile seen by YC as well – letting you experiment and learn for fun.

How it works

 

Regardless of your background, university, or what you’re studying, you can upskill for working at a YC startup as an intern, for free, today. 
 

This program is self-paced. It takes approximately 5-6 hours to complete.

Skills Learned:

  • Working Fullstack – Frontend updates based on feedback
    Help update the frontend of a new productivity tool for shipping

    • React
    • Front-end engineering
    • Web applications
  • Working Fullstack – Backend updates for new features
    Implement the backend changes for the new productivity tool

    • Web applications
    • NodeJS
  • Analytics – Analyze the latest feature releases
    Check the stats to see whether the latest update has moved metrics

    • Analyzing user data
    • Analyzing user tickets
  • Improve your application to YC internship program
    View some strong example applications and learn how to tailor your message to specific startups

    • Communication
    • Determination

Experience Information

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Are you looking to use real-time job market data to make informed decisions about your future career path, explore relevant salary data, or identify the skills you need to build or market to get your next role? Use the following tool to explore your options.

There are two ways to navigate this tool:

  1. Keyword Search: Search for the title of the job you’re looking to pursue, or skills you may have that could be relevant for a particular career path.
  2. Narrow Down by Industry + Occupation: If you have a general sense of the industry you’d like to pursue, you can narrow down the occupations within a given industry to help you decide.
  • Find career data by selecting keywords Keyword Search
  • or, by filtering for industry and occupation Industry Search

First, choose an industry of interest, then filter for occupation. (If you'd like to see data for a specific location only, filter by state.)

Type in a keyword to select a relevant occupation. (If you'd like to see data for a specific location only, filter by state.)

  • 01 Occupation Description
  • 02 Employment Trends
  • 03 Top Employers
  • 04 Education Levels
  • 05 Annual Earnings
  • 06 Technical Skills
  • 07 Core Competencies
  • 08 Job Titles

Occupation Description

Employment Trends

The number of jobs in the career for the past two years, the current year, and projections for the next 10 years. Job counts include both employed and self-employed persons, and do not distinguish between full- and part-time jobs. Sources include Emsi industry data, staffing patterns, and OES data.

Top Employers

These companies are currently hiring for .

    Education Levels

    The educational attainment percentage breakdown for a career (e.g. the percentage of people in the career who hold Bachelor’s Degrees vs. Associate Degrees). Educational attainment levels are provided by O*NET.

    Annual Earnings

    Earnings figures are based on OES data from the BLS and include base rate, cost of living allowances, guaranteed pay, hazardous-duty pay, incentive pay (including commissions and bonuses), on-call pay, and tips.

    Technical Skills

    A list of hard skills associated with a given career ordered by the number of unique job postings which ask for those skills.

      Core Competencies

      The skills for the career. The "importance" is how relevant the ability is to the occupation: scale of 1-5. The "level" is the proficiency required by the occupation: scale of 0-100. Results are sorted by importance first, then level.

        Job Titles

        A list of job titles for all unique postings in a given career, sorted by frequency.

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