Braze

The firm states that software engineering candidates sit a live coding interview and that other engineering roles use non-live assessments; non-engineering roles see portfolio reviews, case studies or sales presentations instead. The loop is gated at the hiring-manager and team stages, so a candidate is rarely far enough through to know the technical assessment format until the recruiter screen has placed them with a specific team – preparation has to be role-specific rather than generic.

The firm has run the program at this cadence consecutively, with Engineering's intern postings advertised on the engineering careers page for an upcoming summer. Braze does not appear to run an off-cycle or winter program; the summer window is the firm's single concentrated intake, which means a student who misses the autumn application has no second route in until the next cycle.

The firm's published platform scale – 4.5 trillion messages and 10.2 trillion API calls processed in 2025 – defines the engineering surface: intern work touches production systems built for high-throughput cross-channel messaging rather than a more conventional internal-tools sandbox. For a candidate weighing this against consumer-brand marketing internships or earlier-stage MarTech startups, the trade-off is concrete: less direct end-consumer brand work, more exposure to the infrastructure that the brand-side runs against.