“ Working at hackcave was a great learning experience for me. You will learn cutting edge technologies and work on them with guidance from smartest people in the college. You get to work on the entire stack of an application, which is usually more work than what you get at any other industrial internship. Learnings which you gain by working at hackcave like writing good and well tested code, team work etc. will help a lot in your future job as well. ”

“ I was mostly involved in building the backend, we did lots of functional programming, learning the scala language from scratch. Not only did this affect my research at iitk, it also gave me a motivation for what to pursue later in graduate school. Being at hackcave, you get to work with some of the best programmers on campus. You get to use cutting edge technologies, all the while following good software engineering practices, and deploying intelligent hacks when appropriate. The connections you develop with the NYC office can help you a lot in future, whether you are into industry or academia. ”

“ Working in hackcave was probably one of the best things I did during my stay at IIT Kanpur. It gave me the first real exposure in working on large scale systems and an added edge in designing, developing and hacking that is still helping me in my professional career. It allowed me to put the concepts I learnt in OS, DBMS and other theoretical courses to practical use and in doing so helped me better understand those. But the best part was developing a hacker mentality. ”

“ Everyone is open to all the questions anytime. Your voice/opinion is heard in every decision. you are free to take up any of the open issues based on your interest and work on it to completion. Everyone becomes adept at some basic but very important set of skills like using Linux, git etc. which are a must for every hacker and will give you an edge over others. You will get to work on a wide varieties of technologies expanding you technical knowledge. I got to learn from mentors several years more experienced than me. Working in hackcave you will develop strong technical skills and get exposure to a wide variety of things which are very widely used in industries and will surely give you an edge over others even in professional life. ”

“ What I'd like to pin point is that the regular academia can give you all the theoretical knowledge one needs to understand one face of the coin, but to become a hacker (or developer, whatever you want to call it), you need skills beyond the books. The best part of being at hackcave compared to any internship or job across the globe is the fact that you can work on a number of things across different platforms and learn how to excel at all of them. You won't have so much of ease or freedom to bring out the 10x in you. ”

“ I have been working with the NYC Office since March 2014 and I would like to say that I have had an amazing all-round learning experience. I have worked here both in regular semester and as my summer internship after second year. The working environment here is combination of best things from both research internship and corporate internship. There is a spectrum of skills that I picked up while working here. Most of the internships elsewhere just give a specific task and you have no knowledge what will happen with the code you are writing and do not get to explore full scale project development. I have worked here in multiple roles as a software engineer. I started with working on web infrastructure, then I contributed to large scale web scrapping of websites, I also implemented multiple features on android app and website frontend. Currently I am working on research problems related to various machine learning applications on the platform. Last summer I also mentored few interns on research and implementation of these machine learning applications. What I would like to add is that here you get to work with best of IITK students on real life problems and learn things that are helpful in your all-round development as a software developer. ”

“ To call hackcave as the major coding highlight in my time at IIT Kanpur would not be an understatement. You learn how to solve real life programming challenges, pick up knowledge on the go, write production quality code, and a myriad other things you would not learn through personal / small projects. Working on organized goals, using state-of-the-art technology stacks, and the general sense of being around smart and skilled hackers, these become natural for me. All the above undoubtedely improves coding skills and helps imbibe the hacker mindset, something which should be an essential for all programmers. ”

“ When I started working with NYC Office of IIT Kanpur in May 2016, I was just another sophomore aspiring to be a good programmer. While working, I got a chance to work with the best programmers at IIT Kanpur. From my experience, I can say that the kind of professionalism that one learns here at Hackcave is unparalleled. We were free to work on the project we like and choose tasks of our interest. The technologies we use are cutting edge, and the code quality is at par, if not better than most of the code that is written in industries. Just like Hogwarts, help is always given at hackcave to those who ask for it. If we get stuck on something, the mentors help us out just enough so that we are able to arrive at the solution on our own. The kind of connections one builds here are extremely important, irrespective of what career one wants to pursue. The NYC office has helped me to improve my skills and I would encourage all students who are interested in computer science to learn from hackcave while they are still in college. ”

“ Hackcave has been a major component in my all-round development as a programmer. One gets the opportunity to interact with a set of highly experienced individuals here, and getting their feedback proved to be extremely helpful. The freedom to choose from and acquire a hands-on experience at a wide variety of domains and technology stacks makes it all the more enjoyable. And in the process, you'll come across that "one" field where your true passion lies. In retrospect, I got to learn how to learn. ”

“ My work at hackcave is perhaps the first professional code that I have ever written. Its has taught me to appreciate things like code design and software architecture. Things that cannot be learned writing throw-away code for course assignments and pet project. I learned how to effectively collaborate with other software developers as well as how to lead and manage a team of them. You will learn crucial skills that are in very high demand in industry as well as in academia. If you are an IITK student, this is the best project on campus to get involved in. ”

“ I have worked under the new york office since the end of my first year and it has really shaped the software developer I have become. By encouraging learning by doing and by providing a platform to convert knowledge to experience, it has helped me vastly advance my skillset and try out new things. The freedom to work on anything you want and the various different technologies being used allow tackling a problem from various perpectives and gain a lot of insight into different domains of software development. ”

“ I joined the NYO in my summers of the first year in the Android app development team. One thing I realized was working with skilled “Hackers”/ Developers definitely boosts your learning curve. You learn a lot in a very short amount of time. I was able to understand the very basics as well as the advanced topics of android/frontend dev in a short span of 1 month which usually takes around 4 months to master. I got to work on a well-structured codebase. Which improved my coding style and made me aware of the best practices associated with writing codes. The NYO developer team (Hackcave) maintains an industrial scale model so, you also learn how to integrate and prioritize your tasks with other teams. In short, I would recommend any student, who is willing to get a feel for what development really is, just join the team Hackcave. ”