You are hiring one React intern. The gap between a listing that fills in a week and one that sits open for two months is almost never the stipend — it is whether the brief names the actual react work.
React work at intern level is component design and data fetching, not architecture. Give them one screen to own completely, including its loading and error states.
Worth separating from React Development Internship: same skills, different commitment. React.js Intern is a hire you scope around one deliverable, whereas react development internship is framed as a programme with a mentor and a fixed duration. Pick the framing that matches what you can actually offer, because candidates read the difference.
This page is written for the person doing the hiring, not for candidates. It covers what to screen for, what the market pays in 2026, and what to put in the listing. Posting the React role here is free.
What one React intern actually does in the first 90 days
These are sized for a student with the fundamentals and no production experience, working under review. Pick one as the term goal rather than listing all five as expectations.
- Own one screen end to end, including its loading, empty and error states
- Fix the components that re-render on every keystroke and prove it with the profiler
- Replace bespoke fetch logic with a caching data layer
- Add error boundaries and sensible fallbacks to the main routes
React skills worth screening for
Treat this as a screening list, not a wish list. Someone with three of these deeply is a better intern than someone with all eight superficially.
- 1Building the states that never appear in a demo
- 2Component composition over prop drilling
- 3Hooks: useState, useEffect and dependency arrays
- 4Keys and list reconciliation
- 5State colocation and lifting
- 6Memoisation and when it is pointless
- 7Data fetching patterns and caching
- 8Error boundaries
Do not require every tool. Most React tooling is a week of learning for someone with the underlying skill, and each extra "must have" costs you applications.
Screening questions for react.js intern
Ask the same ones of everybody. The point is comparison, and comparison needs a constant.
What causes an infinite re-render loop in useEffect?
What a good answer shows: Dependency-array understanding, the most common React bug
When is useMemo a waste of time?
What a good answer shows: Whether they measure or cargo-cult
How do you decide where state lives?
What a good answer shows: Architectural judgement
Leave silence after the follow-up. The most useful part of these answers usually arrives after the candidate thinks they have finished.
Where the React candidates come from
Thousands of highly skilled fresh graduates and final-year students are already registered, from India’s premium institutes and its strongest regional campuses. Filter on React 18, graduation year and city, and reach them the same day you post.
- Skill tags — filter directly on React 18, TypeScript, React Query or SWR and the rest of the React stack
- Degree and branch, for the roles where the coursework genuinely matters
- City and willingness to relocate, or remote-only if the role is remote
- Graduation year and current semester, so you only see candidates free when you need them
- Languages, for roles with customer or field contact across states
You can also work the other way round: search the pool first, shortlist the React profiles you want, and post the listing knowing who you are hoping to reach.
What to pay one React intern in 2026
Expect ₹15,000–₹36,000 a month. Metro product companies sit at the top of that band; smaller cities and services firms at the bottom.
Funded product startups often pay above large services firms for the same role, because they are competing for the same few candidates and can decide faster.
Add the reviewer’s hours, tooling access and a laptop if the role needs one. That is the true cost — and it is still far below a lateral hire.
Late stipends are the most common complaint from interns in India and they travel fast through campus groups. It costs you next year’s pool as well as this one.
It filters for who can afford to work free, not who is good. It also roughly halves your applications, and removes most of the candidates who had a second option.
Scoping a single React intern properly
One intern, one owner, one project that matters. Single hires fail for a boring reason: the work was never scoped, so the intern spent the term on whatever was in front of whoever was free that day.
Pick one item from the React list above and make it the term’s goal. If nobody can name the deliverable, the role is not ready to post.
One person who reviews the work weekly and answers questions daily. Shared ownership at this level means nobody owns it.
Access, environment, a first small task and a person to sit with. The first week decides whether you get twelve productive weeks or eight.
A halfway review lets you change scope while it still matters and gives feedback while the intern can still act on it.
How to post react.js intern on MyInternships.in
You do not need a prepared job description. Answer a few questions in the chat and the assistant drafts the listing, title and skill tags for you.
One sentence is enough to start. Mention React 18 and the duration, and the assistant will ask what it still needs.
It drafts the description, suggests the title and tags the React skills so the right candidates see it. You edit anything before it publishes.
One-time company verification protects the pool from fake listings, which is why response rates here hold up on roles that would be ignored elsewhere.
Expect the first responses the same day. Shortlist against the questions above, then interview — most roles here close inside two weeks.
Free plan: one listing, live after verification. Starter ₹499: five listings a month, published instantly, full applicant contact and résumé access. Growth ₹999: fifteen listings with AI candidate matching.
Mistakes that cost you the good React candidates
None of these are hypothetical. They are the patterns behind listings that get plenty of applications and no hires.
A React listing with fourteen required tools reads as a company that does not know what it needs. Strong candidates self-select out; the ones who apply anyway have inflated their CVs to match.
Good candidates have two or three processes running. A week between the first call and the offer loses them, and the delay is almost always internal scheduling rather than a real decision.
If nobody can name the problem this intern solves, the term will be filled with whatever is urgent that week, and the assessment at the end will be about attitude rather than output.
"Assist the team" tells a candidate nothing and tells you nothing at review time. Name the work, in the listing, from the deliverables above.
React.js Intern — frequently asked questions
Which React skills are non-negotiable for react.js intern?+
Insist on building the states that never appear in a demo, and on enough component composition over prop drilling to work unsupervised on small tasks. Hooks: useState, useEffect and dependency arrays is the third thing worth testing in the interview. Tool familiarity — React 18, TypeScript, React Query or SWR — is a bonus rather than a filter: most of it is a week of learning for someone with the underlying skill.
What should we set as the goal for the term?+
One finished thing. Own one screen end to end, including its loading, empty and error states is the right size: real work someone on the team would otherwise do, small enough to finish, visible enough to assess. If they move quickly, fix the components that re-render on every keystroke and prove it with the profiler is the natural second piece. A term with three half-finished projects assesses nothing and teaches less.
How do we benchmark the stipend for react.js intern?+
Start from ₹15,000–₹36,000 a month, then adjust for city and duration: metros at the top, tier-2 typically 25–40% lower, and six-month commitments above six-week ones. Publish the number in the listing — "as per industry standards" is read as low or undecided, and it costs you applications from exactly the candidates who had another option.
What is the fastest way to tell a strong React candidate from a weak one?+
Ask about something that went wrong. "What causes an infinite re-render loop in useEffect?" gets you dependency-array understanding, the most common React bug, and two follow-up questions on their own example will tell you the depth. Candidates who have only studied the topic run out of specifics almost immediately.
What should a React intern deliver by the end of the term?+
One finished, reviewed piece of work that someone on the team would otherwise have done — not a side project nobody adopts. The deliverables above are sized for eight to twelve weeks of supervised work by a student with the fundamentals but no production experience. If they can demo it and the team keeps using it after they leave, the hire paid for itself.
Does the "Reactjs" in React.js Intern change who we should hire?+
React work at intern level is component design and data fetching, not architecture. Give them one screen to own completely, including its loading and error states. In screening terms, that means adding one specific check: building the states that never appear in a demo.
Should the listing state the duration and start date?+
Always. Students plan around semester dates, and a listing without a start date and duration is filtered out by exactly the organised candidates you want. For React roles, stating "three months, starting June" typically produces more applications than an open-ended listing at a higher stipend.
What documents does a React intern usually need at the end?+
Most Indian colleges ask for a completion or experience certificate, and many also require a mentor evaluation on the institution's own form. Ask which format the candidate's college needs during onboarding rather than in the final week — it takes two minutes then and becomes a scramble later.
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