Why it is so difficult to find an internship for a Computer Science Student?
I do have good resume, I am full of energy, I can spend a lot of time on solving problems and development. I can learn new things.
But everyone wants a intern who knows everything and can do miracle for them. No one is giving chance to ones who are in learning phase. Just try us and you will see the potential in us.
Been trying to get a good internship from last 3 months. 😔

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It's tough out there, took me ~12 months to find an internship (lazy + constant rejection got to me at one point).

One of major problems is that many companies/hr departments have this mentality that training juniors takes away from senior's time and thus only incurs loss of profit (not true and idiotic, but what can you do?). Which then leads to them only seeking mid-senior level personnel. This leads to whole bunch of other nasty issues which I won't get into...

Either way, I'd say growing thick skin to rejection, constant self improvement and relentless search will lead to something, eventually.

@TheLazyDev Please get into it😉

One thing that will help is that try to pose yourselves as persons who have been coding for soooo long and know most of the things and just need to get this pesky internship out of the way.. And when they ask you to do hard things learn to Google and learn like there's no tomorrow :) that way you'll stand out.. It's all about marketing :/ and usually really enthusiastic intern can be really good.. But you have to be willing to put a lot of effort on it and market yourself a bit..

Ps. I've hired two interns and hired both as full time in the end.. Both were thrown to the deep end to see how they'll cope and learn :)

Lastly try to get in via existing team leader or similar guy.. Then it becomes more if he likes you or not.. Thus much more culture thing than hr..

From a guy that coordinates the technical part of the interviews in my company: I don't know if it is specific from us, but we are not only looking for experienced guys. Far from that actually.

We rather prefer to invest time teaching someone new than hiring experienced people. What we usually look is the candidate will to learn and being passionate for what he does - you can see this for the past work he done on his own.

In my opinion, if you want to impress someone, check job specs, see if you have a match with the language/framework used, and try to develop something within those specs. Even if you don't land the job, it will be one more project in your portfolio that you can showcase later.