# How We Enable Our Interns to Make an Impact

DevFeed: [How We Enable Our Interns to Make an Impact](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/how-we-enable-our-interns-to-make-an-impact-1449.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://shopify.engineering/intern-blog-post>)

Author: Toni Akinwumi

Published: 2017-11-01T20:55:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Shopify Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/shopify-engineering.md>), [Shopify Engineering - Shopify Engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/shopify-engineering-shopify-engineering.md>)

Topics: [Shopify](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/shopify.md>), [Android](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/android.md>), [App](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/app.md>), [amazon](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/amazon.md>), [Back end](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/backend.md>)

Tags: [amazon](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/amazon.md>), [android](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/android.md>), [app](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/app.md>), [developers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/developers.md>), [learning](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/learning.md>), [mobile](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mobile.md>), [projects](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/projects.md>), [shopify](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/shopify.md>), [support](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/support.md>), [technical](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/technical.md>), [third-party](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/third-party.md>), [work](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/work.md>)

## AI overview

Shopify describes how its internships give interns meaningful projects with real effects on merchants, partners, and developers. The article highlights autonomy, mentorship, ongoing challenges, and cross-team collaboration, with examples involving the Amazon Channel and an Android app project that required addressing technical debt and coordinating with third-party developers.

## Source excerpt

Making an Impact When interns join Shopify for their internship term, they work on projects that will impact our merchants, partners, and even their fellow developers. Some of these projects will alleviate a merchant's pain points, like the ability to sell their products on different channels, or simplify a complicated process for our developers. We want interns to leave knowing they worked on real projects with real impact.