QUOTE(flying_duck @ May 31 2020, 09:55 PM)
I'd recommend you to think twice on the game dev path.
I had an intern who's your senior, game development in KDU.
He had difficult time looking for internship placement in game dev industry.
For AI path, make sure you pick your internship carefully.
Normally those big corps hire junior Data Scientist / Machine Learning Engineer / related roles from their internship trainee.
I have to disagree with you. Please don't base your assumptions on just a singular data point.I had an intern who's your senior, game development in KDU.
He had difficult time looking for internship placement in game dev industry.
For AI path, make sure you pick your internship carefully.
Normally those big corps hire junior Data Scientist / Machine Learning Engineer / related roles from their internship trainee.
Now, i have spoken to a few people in the game development spectrum on this (As soon as i saw this post - i sent a few casual messages out).
There are a lot of variables at work in securing an internship. Primarily, some of the studios rejected internship because there are no connection. Programming students sending internship emails to art studios and so on. Secondly, is because they lack the current skillsets that the studios require - for example - Codemasters say that there are character animation people applying to them and when asked, the interns say they do not like environment art. And certain studios prefer programmers who are familiar with certain tools.
Any btw - i know of a lot of the studios (there are some that doesn't take interns or doesn't like to take interns who are NOT in the final semester) who are looking for interns. So my guess is either you friend did not cast out the net as far as he should or doesn't have the right fit for the company.
So unless you are from the game development industry or have direct links with that industry - i suggest you don't make anecdotal comments.