Front-end Software Engineer Intern (Summer 2025)

glassdoor Chicago, IL (Remote) Full-time 2024-12-12

Why Glassdoor?

When you work for Glassdoor, you help people everywhere get ahead in work and life. That’s because we’re moving fast to become the leading community for workplace conversations. Every day, we foster radical transparency by giving professionals a platform to connect authentically and anonymously. Think real talk with real people — plus company reviews and ratings, salary info, job listings and more. 

Join us as we make worklife better, together.

We are looking for an engineering intern to help our Registration team build products and features that create valuable and engaging experiences for our Glassdoor users in an effort to achieve our mission of making worklife better.

About the Role

As a Software Engineer Intern, you will be working on features that help millions of professionals discover Glassdoor, register and onboard on their path towards finding a company and job that they love. The Registration team seeks to further radical transparency and grow the Glassdoor community by building out and iterating on our community onboarding and content contribution flows – core features of Glassdoor! This includes everything from the community onboarding experience to the salaries, reviews, interviews, and benefits contribution surveys.

Hourly pay rate

$40.00 / hour

What You’ll Do

  • Help build features that our users love to use
  • Solve engineering problems, small and large
  • Take end-to-end ownership of features by writing well-written, maintainable code supported by unit tests
  • Work closely with your Technical Lead and Product owner to help clarify requirements and accurately define expectation
  • Participate in planning sessions and other team meetings
  • Gain working experience in agile methodologies and rapid development.

What You’ll Bring.

  • Knowledge of both OOP and functional programming and design patterns
  • Experience developing in Node.js and React.js, with an excellent understanding of JavaScript fundamentals
  • Quick learner, self-motivated to grow
  • Knowledge in Next.js, TypeScript and GraphQL is a plus
  • Past experience building web applications and/or web services is a plus

Glassdoor Internship Program 

  • 12 week virtual program where you’ll manage projects and tasks, participate in engaging virtual events, and learn valuable skills! 
  • Opportunity for in-person connections with your fellow interns! 
  • Full-time program (8 hours per day, 40 hours per week). 
  • Fully remote: work almost anywhere within the United States. 
  • Fully paid program and paid company holidays. 
  • Two cohort dates: 
    • May 27 – August 15, 2025
    • June 2 – August 22, 2025

Our Commitments

  • Come as you are: At Glassdoor diversity is not a slogan; it’s a core factor in our success. We welcome your background, experience and ideas because you help us understand and better serve our world. You make us stronger.
  • Grow your career: Glassdoor is small enough for you to see the impact of your contributions, while large enough to offer significant resources and endless opportunities to grow. This is a great place to make a career.
  • Find your people: Ask anyone who works here: it’s the people who make the difference. We are a group of well-rounded humans who support one another and work hard together to bring the Glassdoor mission to life.
  • Discover flexibility: With flexible hours and a where-to-work policy, Glassdoor allows you to take on professional and personal responsibilities — enhancing both productivity and your well-being. 

Glassdoor is committed to equal treatment and opportunity in all aspects of recruitment, selection and employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ethnicity, age, sex, marital status, physical or mental disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, veteran or military status or any other category protected under the law. Glassdoor is an equal opportunity employer; committed to creating a community of inclusion, and an environment free from discrimination, harassment and retaliation.

Where-to-Work Policy
Being a remote-first company, Glassdoor employees can live anywhere Glassdoor is a registered company. Requests to move must be approved by an employee’s manager and the People team. While we will try our best to support relocation requests, some requests may not be approved due to various tax, legal, or other restrictions.

Enjoy Remote and Explore: Employees authorized to work in their current location may Work Away for up to a total of 30 (thirty) working days in a calendar year without permanent relocation and compensation change. Employees on visas may work Work Away for up to a total of 20 (twenty) working days in a calendar year without permanent relocation and compensation change. The amount of time and location for Work Away must be approved by the employee’s manager and People Operations team at least two (2) weeks in advance of travel.