Question

Do you need a laptop for a computer science internship? Or do they provide you with everything? Would having your own laptop be preferred? are you allowed to use your own laptop?

Answer 1

Either of the mentioned cases, we are definitely going to need the laptop because without laptop , there is no computer science internship. But it purely depends on the the case whether company is providing you a laptop/desktop or you need to make bring yourself. It can be explained in two ways.

It depends on the mode of the internship . If it is online internship , you will need to get your own laptop . If a company is providing the internship , the company only provides you the laptop . Basically it depends on the company size , if a company doesn't want to expose the data to outside , it doesn't provide access to the devices which are external to the company .

If you are working in startups and depending on the size of the company , some startups asks you to take your own laptops for work .They don't actually give you main product work , that is why they ask you to bring your own laptops. Basically what happens here is , they don't expect you to solve product deployment problems so that is why they don't actually give you company systems to work on.

In the big-size companies , this is a different case . They have their own way of organizing their work , they don't actually let you use , your personal devices. In this case , even small mistake will mislead to large mistakes .That is why they don't let you control things on your personal computers . There are several other reasons , like some software only runs on specific devices .Let's say if we take an example of Machine Learning algorithms , they can only run on NVIDIA graphic card {several Neural Network Algorithms only works at the high computing power }.