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Teenager gets Facebook internship after developing an app for Windows Phone

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Teenager gets Facebook internship after developing an app for Windows Phone
17 year old Nive Jayaseker

17 year old Nive Jayaseker

17 year old Nive Jayaseker won $10,500 in a hackathon that took place in San Francisco earlier this month. Besides winning the money with her Windows Phone flavored app for Home Depot, the teenager also ended up with an offer to work as an intern at Facebook. Her app was designed to help both novice and experienced gardeners to find supplies needed for a landscaping project.

A bit of luck was involved as Jayaseker, a high school graduate, had come late to the event and presented her winning app just before Facebook's director of mobile partnerships, Emily White, was due to speak. White was so impressed with the teenager that not only did she give her a Summer internship as a partner engineer intern focusing on mobile app development, she also said that one day she herself will be working for Miss Jayaseker.

source: TheScore.ie via WMPoweruser

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1. darktranquillity posted on 30 Jun 2012, 22:15 1 8

Indian?

8. CellularNinja posted on 01 Jul 2012, 06:42

look at the pic. . . does she look indian to you?

11. vijay0715 posted on 01 Jul 2012, 10:51

Yeah your right she is an Indian Jayasekar is an Indian name

14. Whodaboss posted on 01 Jul 2012, 21:42 4

What the hell does that have to do with anything? What?! Indian food?! Indina curry?! Indian cheese?! What the hell does Indian have to do with this article?!

2. PhansMuneeb posted on 30 Jun 2012, 22:30

She will never forget wp

3. dickwyn posted on 30 Jun 2012, 22:32 1 1

Windows Phone Partnership with facebook

4. wendygarett (limited) 3 days ago posted on 30 Jun 2012, 22:36 7 1

A better offer than the app developer from Apple...

6. Hammerfest posted on 01 Jul 2012, 04:02 4 1

you forget, Apple woulnt offer an app developer anything, from past experiance, Apple would STEAL the idea/app/code/everything then proceed to ban said developers app from the app store, then freeze their developer account funds...

Its happened quite a few times already... wont ever stop...

5. jed27 posted on 01 Jul 2012, 00:41 3

Nive JayasekAr. That's with an A, not an E.

7. snotyak posted on 01 Jul 2012, 04:04

Why would Emily White, FB's director of mobile partnerships, be working for Nive?

9. CellularNinja posted on 01 Jul 2012, 06:44

She sees such promise in the girl that she thinks she will rise higher in the company after awhile. Then she could possibly be working under her. That happens alot. The employer becomes the employee and vice versa.

13. snotyak posted on 01 Jul 2012, 13:48

Yeah, I understand it and I know it happens but the article makes it seem like it WILL happen and there's no question about it!

10. Bluesky02 posted on 01 Jul 2012, 10:31

Indians are great programmer

16. snotyak posted on 01 Jul 2012, 23:41

I have an Indian teaching CS at my university. He has a PhD in software engineering but he's a horrible programmer. It makes me very sad. He doesn't know the difference between Java and Javascript :(

12. Non_Sequitur posted on 01 Jul 2012, 11:41

A technology-obsessed teen guy like me would kill for a girl like this.

17. spanky posted on 03 Jul 2012, 09:22

thats creepy man

15. andyboi_ph posted on 01 Jul 2012, 22:03

shes awesome for a 17yo kid...

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