As an IT intern at YourSurprise you will be fully part of the IT team, consisting of around 30 people with expertise in software development, data science, testing and much more. The team consists of mainly Dutch speaking people, however we have some international colleagues as well.

You will be placed in our Data Engineering & Science ship, which is an autonomous team that handles everything related to data within YourSurprise. This ship is responsible for forecasting the expected amount of gifts we are going to sell, both on long and short term. They are also working on models that optimize our planning, and help us understand our customers better.

Who will you be learning from?

Software and data is one of the most important things that causes growth at YourSurprise. Whether it is the personalization software, automating our production department, forecasting the amount of gifts we have to produce on a certain day, we all implemented it ourselves.

Your colleagues are professionals with high ambitions. Every day they are working on the core of YourSurprise and improving it little by little. Most colleagues are using techniques like python and R, which are our main programming languages within the data science domain. For your internship, you will be assigned your own buddy ( internship supervisor). This will be one of our colleagues, depending on which ship and project you choose.
 
What projects do we have?

Based on your ambitions and knowledge, we will define a project of graduation research. Some of the projects we have in mind right now are:

• How to use AI to enrich our data;

• Predict the end time of our production department and how switching around personnel affects it;

• Predict how much traffic we expect in the upcoming hours based on trends and earlier traffic

• Apply NLP on one of the many content types we have, review, customer contacts or even customer personalization.

Curious about one of the above projects, or have a great idea yourself? Let us know and let’s discuss it!


Who are you?

• You must be connected to an international Associate, Bachelor or Master Degree;
  
• You are eager to learn and the only thing you want is to become an expert in something that has to do with IT;
  
• You will be using feedback and knowledge from our professionals to get the most out of your internship;
  
• You have experience with doing data analysis with Python or R and applying machine learning models;
  
• You like to work in and with a team, together we can achieve more
  
  

What is in it for you?

• A fun internship in a fast-growing company, in a young and dynamic team;
  
• Support from your personal Buddy (and colleagues) during your internship;
  
• A good internship allowance;
  
• A lunch (for a small fee) and daily fresh fruits;
  
• Infinite cuddles from one of our office dogs;
  
• A dynamic working environment in a brand new building with a gym, bedrooms and even a slide!
  
• With a unique teamspirit, we organise hackathons, LAN-parties, and training/learning possibilities.
  
• The possibility to live in one of our YourSurprise (student) houses during your internship abroad, we even provide you with a YourSurprise bicycle;
  
• A YourSurprise sports club, great parties, fun Friday afternoon drinks and the annual legendary weekend away with the whole company. All on a voluntary basis, of course.
  
• And most importantly: a company where you can develop yourself and feel like a real colleague. Did you know that we have been named the 'Best Learning Company of the Netherlands' in one of the nine sectors in 2024?