5. Domain Knowledge - Does the applicant have any knowledge of your business? This is at least as important as programming skills.

A six month internship is pretty short. An up-front list of projects to attack will be helpful. This could/should include training activities and homework like reading Learning Perl.

My internship(1973) was so much different than today. I came in with Data General assembly language experience which comes with bit level hardware knowledge. "Kids" today learn products.

James