Long summer breaks offer unlimited opportunities for Carnegie Mellon University students to relax, travel, study and intern. There’s something special about the experience if a student returns to the same company for a second summer internship.
Dipak Krishnan, a senior in statistics and machine learning, interned with Salesforce last year and returned in May.
"What brought me back was the culture of the team and the bonding that we had," Krishnan said. "The technical work in my internship is really interesting and aligns very well with the work I'm doing at CMU."
Krishnan spent this summer developing automation tools for clients that can isolate potential customers via email data.
CMU students such as Krishnan have found themselves at the heart of Salesforce. The company's co-CEO, Keith Block, is Carnegie Mellon alumnus and member of its Board of Trustees, having earned a master's of science degree in Management and Policy Analysis and a bachelor's of science degree in Information Systems in 1984. Salesforce presently employs 200 alumni, many of whom started their Salesforce careers as interns.