Advait Maybhate, 24, is a software engineer at Warp, an AI agent platform for developers. He completed about a dozen tech internships before graduating from the University of Waterloo in 2023, including two internships at Google. He pursued internships across fields such as gaming and fintech and at companies ranging from early-stage startups to mature Big Tech firms. At Google, he worked on Google Search and learned engineering practices like unit testing and writing technical design documents. He found large-company bureaucracy and slow pace limiting and chose a startup role to accelerate learning.
Internships are a big deal at Waterloo, and students usually do six during their time there. I started doing internships before I enrolled and took some gap semesters to squeeze in a couple more stints. To me, internships meant exploring varied fields, from gaming to fintech. I also got to intern at companies of different scales, from early-stage startups to mature Big Tech companies.
The first summer internship I did at Waterloo was at Google. Interning there was an eye-opening experience. I got to work on Google Search, a product that billions of people, including myself, use every single day. When I took up the internship, like any freshman, I just thought it would be cool to work at a big company and ship big products. I ended up interning at Google twice, first in the summer of 2019, and then during the following summer in 2020.
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