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Comment by belval | Hacker News Reader

As a Canadian that was supposed to do an internship at FAANG this summer the situation is looking worse everyday.

I know some managers at Microsoft are considering remote interns but it will be far from the same experience.

Depends on the org you'll be joining. All of the interns I worked with were remote, but I was part of the field division not corporate. Best of luck!

A Canadian friend of mine who was going to Amazon got sent to Amazon Japan temporarily, but working on the same team, until the Visa cleared.

If you can, try to talk with your internship coordinator about your concerns and see if they have any contingency plans. I don't know which company your internship was with, but I recall interns having some flexibility in their placement at AWS. The company might be able to place you in Canada (AWS, for example, has a large presence in Vancouver).

Most FAANG have Canadian offices. If you don't get your visa on time but people go back to work in the office, you can ask them to help you find another team in Canada.

>but it will be far from the same experience

why do you think so? except for free food and the city life of whichever city you were supposed to be in, what's the difference?

You'll largely miss out on the social aspect of all the other interns, for one.

does not being able to socialize qualify as "far from"?

For a lot of internships, socialization is very significant. It really depends on the intern and the team, of course.

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