Labs Internship Program

Labs is Sea's research and development arm, which the company describes as designing and building software for over 140 million users across Southeast Asia and Taiwan across entertainment, social, commerce and financial services. Sea says the Labs Internship Program exists "to unleash the potential of bright young talents" and that it looks for "candidates who are exceptionally outstanding, who take coding seriously and understand computer programming as a science".

As a software engineer intern you work on Sea's platform alongside its engineers to learn how a scalable, high performance system is built, and Sea says individuals with outstanding performance will be invited to a full time position. The programme is structured: an introduction to Labs technology stacks, an entry task reviewed with your mentor, regular performance reviews with the technical team leader, a presentation on the internship and a final review with the Vice President of Labs. Sea lists the allowance as S$2000 to S$3000 per month based on interview results, and the schedule as flexible and all year round. Eligibility is tight: only students currently pursuing a bachelor's degree in computer science or a related technical field, and only second and third year students.