Internship Overview:
The Home Depot's Summer Internship program offers college students an opportunity to develop leadership skills and gain hands on experience in a corporate environment. During an 11-week period from May 17 - July 30, 2027, interns will be assigned to a functional team such as Supply Chain, Marketing, e-commerce, Technology, Finance, Operations, Merchandising, Pro, Home Services, Human Resources, etc. Interns will learn more about our retail business and our corporate offices while having the opportunity to work on a pre-assigned project that impacts the function they are supporting. Additionally, interns participate in networking and development activities that set them up for success as they build their careers.
What makes a Great Intern:
- Action Oriented: Intern takes on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm
- Manages Ambiguity: Intern effectively navigates and thrives in uncertain situations while using sound judgment to make decisions without having the full picture. Is able to move work forward without all the details
- Collaboration: Intern contributes to the group's efforts and steps forward to help as needed. Seeks input from others
- Nimble Learning: Intern actively learns through experimentation when tackling new problems, using both successes and failures as learning fodder
- Communication: Intern develops and delivers multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audience
- Customer Focus: Intern builds strong customer relationships and delivers customer-centric solutions
- Drives Results: Evaluates information to make logical decisions and achieve results despite potential challenges or setbacks.
Description of the Major/Subject Area:
A Software Engineer Intern is responsible for joining a product team and contributing to the software design, software development, and overall product lifecycle for a product that our users will love. As a Software Engineer Intern, you will work under the guidance of a more senior engineer on an existing product team to ship production code.
Tasks, responsibilities, and key accountabilities include:
- Planning & Analysis:
- Uses critical thinking to approach problems and create solutions
- Collaborates with senior leaders on assignments
- Delivery & Support:
- Collaborates and pairs with other product team members (UX, engineering, and product management) to create secure, reliable, scalable software solutions
- Works under the direction of a more senior engineer to build a well-rounded skillset
- Configures commercial off the shelf solutions to align with evolving business needs
- Creates automation scripts for both infrastructure and test cases
- Learning:
- Participates in learning activities around modern software design and development core practices (communities of practice)
- Proactively views articles, tutorials, and videos to learn about new technologies and best practices being used within other technology organizations
- Reviews and discusses code from more senior engineers to understand best practices and design patterns
- Increases business acumen by learning about other parts of the business
Preferred Qualifications:
- Currently pursuing relevant advanced degree
- 0-1 years of relevant work experience
- Interest in working as part of a collaborative, cross-functional, modern software design and development team
- Exposure to a web-front-end technology and framework such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, AngularJS, ReactJS, and Jquery
- Exposure to version control systems (preferably Git)
- Previous experience working in group environments or utilizing paired programming
- Preferred GPA 3.0 or above
Description of Roles: (Career paths that utilize this skillset full-time):
At The Home Depot, our associates always have room to move up and explore new opportunities. After the Internship, here are some examples of early career roles for interns:
Location: Remote Interns will be primarily remote throughout the 11-week program but may be required to travel to our Atlanta corporate office (Store Support Center) for up to 3 weeks during the program. Travel expenses will be covered for eligible interns.