Nintendo Of America Has 14 Internships Up For Grabs In Summer 2020

Hmm... That sounds like a job for Graphic Design!

Wow, I will be a rising senior in a Computer Science degree. Now to cram everything I need to know about 3D graphics rendering techniques.

Will they pay you normally or as a slave... I mean intern.

Passionate about Nintendo's games. Have an excellent track record of calling good and bad sales decisions. Could've easily helped them sidestep some costly decisions and mistakes. Master's degree in Business Administration, focus on Accounting.

What can I contribute to Nintendo according to how their job listings go?
Sweeping the floors.

@KoekiieWoekiie Washington State has a high minimum wage, so the pay will at least be higher than the federal minimum wage.

While interesting, it's not really news, is it?
Most larger cooperations offer internships all the time... even at Nintendo there is more. Besides those jobs in the American HQ, there are numerous internship openings in the other main locations:

In Japan (Global HQ):
https://www.nintendo.co.jp/jobs/internship/index.html
These are called "internships", but really are one-day experiences. The Director course has you accompany a game director for a day, open to ten people (registration ends very soon!), the artwork track an art director, etc. Must be super exciting. But chances are impossible, probably?

In Germany (European HQ):
https://www.nintendo.co.uk/Corporate/Career/Career-Working-at-Nintendo-757078.html#apprenticesinterns
Ten openings in business/marketing/PR/technical areas. These are proper internships, advertised as 6 months or longer.

@KoekiieWoekiie Assuming it's a paid internship, and hourly pay, it would be $13.50 an hour for those applying to Washington State.

@KingBowser86 40 years ago, one could do this with basic high school and a couple years retail experience. Ridiculous how high the minimum requirements are... 🙄

@EVIL-C And businesses wonder why they're making flop decisions when they're hiring people with impossibly-niche software requirements and refuse to train, over people with puzzle-piece-fit understanding of the product offering and their thumb squarely on the consumer market.

Like, what good is the software if what's going into it and being interpreted from its usage is poor? Garbage in, garbage out.

I could make the tea. Of course I live in Australia and would be working from home.

@Fandabidozi said "I could make the tea. Of course I live in Australia"
I assure you, they're not drinking "tea" on their breaks in the US 😅

I think this internship is a great opportunity for anyone who happens to be in the right place at the right time.

@KingBowser86 Yep, I agree. I encountered similar frustration when I worked at Target Canada, before they went straight down the toilet.
The decisions made during the setup process were a joke. They tried doing a massive, massive launch all at once, instead of staggering it more slowly.
When we opened, we barely had 50% of our shelves stocked, and were overstocked in other areas.
Keep in mind, these Target US execs all had MBAs, masters in Marketing, HR, to name a few. So naturally, what did a lowly grunt like me know, right? 😉
Anyone with half a brain could tell we were screwed before opening day. I'll never get over that display of stupidity.

@EVIL-C There were students in my MBA classes that couldn't spell or even use grammar correctly to save their own lives. I still tell the tale of making a reference to "Sigmund Freud," and this classmate just looks at me dead on and says, "Who?"

@KingBowser86 I realized a long time ago that language and grammar isn't that important anymore, oddly enough, when it's adult education in question. They only care if you can do all the stupid math and recall formulas. That's why I can't do what I'm interested in.

They didn't know Sigmund Freud?! Wow. 😮 Just curious, but were some of these students international? I know business schools love to brag about a high % of non-domestic alumni. I just think "holy eff, they must already be rich".

@EVIL-C Eh. It's still important in presenting oneself and communication with peers. Or, heck, looking competent to a client. But yes, software and editorial/team review handle a lot of that for us automatically.
No, seemed like he was born/raised in the area. Rich or poor, man, there's just some basic worldly knowledge you're supposed to get growing up. Now I don't expect everyone to catch all the '80's movie references or anything, but a basic smattering in STEM is a good thing to have.

@KingBowser86 Oh certainty it's very important. I was simply concurring with your observation that, despite some individuals being in graduate level studies, or in very high ranking positions, they frankly can't write for, lol. 😋 It frustrates me because it feels like that doesn't matter, so long as one excels in the technical side with math and/or science. That's certainly the impression I got from school admissions as well. 😔

That's even more surprising then. He'd maybe never heard of "a freudian slip" either? Hehe, that certainly is unusual for a local person. I've met local people who know barely any pop culture references, which makes it even more awkward.
Most of the best kinds of jobs require something from STEM at a formal level understanding, so if one can't grasp them, they're SOL. The only reason I passed high school was they offered to swap one credit for a required math.

@Prizm
I pretty much just read the headline and assumed it’d be in Japan. 😊
Edit: And didn’t read that very well either. 🤦🏻‍♂️