Nive Jayasekar, the high school graduate who swept away the whole applause at a hackathon event in California had finally decided to work as a partner engineer intern at Facebook. In the programming contest held on June 16-17, organized by the Social-Loco Conference , Nive had amazed the Facebook executives with her knowledge on mobile-app development and had earned an on-spot offer to work with the company from Emily White, Facebook’s director of mobile partnerships.
After winning the competition, Nive even got a chance to present her app before Emily White."Nive is amazing and I'm going to be working for her someday," was the response from the White, after the meeting.But after getting the offer to work with Facebook, which is every intern’s dream, Nive was reluctant to take up. Moreover, she was bound to join Carnegie Mellon University.
But now, after much thought, she has finally resolved to be a part of the social network for a summer internship.
"I will be working as a partner engineer intern focusing on mobile app development," Nive told Business Insider.
Nive, the 17-year-old girl from Coimbatore, Tamilnadu is currently living in California with her parents (as her Facebook profile says) She had developed a project organizer Windows Phone app for the home improvement chain in the hackathon event. The app, which made her win $10,500, was targeted at gardeners to find materials for landscaping. The highlight about the app is that it is made for both the novices and experts in gardening who can find it too easy to use it. Nive developed a single app for those separate categories addressing both the audience.
Now, she is porting her app to Apple’s iOS devices and Android Smartphones.
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