The Top Paying Tech Companies For Interns 133
theodp writes "For those students for whom it's all about the Benjamins, BusinessInsider's Alyson Shontell has compiled a nice list of 20 Tech Companies That Pay Interns Boatloads Of Money. 'If you intern for a high-profile tech company,' notes Shontell, 'you can make more money than the average US citizen. Facebook, for example, pays its average intern $6,056 per month. That ends up being a base salary of about $72,000 per year.' Sure beats making a 'measly' $5,808 per month at LinkedIn, where you might find yourself having to participate in embarrassing sing-a-longs and Flash Mobs!"
This is how it should be (Score:5, Insightful)
You can make more money than the average US citizen
Which makes sense. These interns are top students from top schools, generally more qualified than the average US citizen. Internships are a recruiting strategy, and undergraduate internships are essentially 3 month interviews.
Sing-a-longs huh? (Score:5, Insightful)
Wonder why no outsider takes software developers seriously? Imagine telling a mining engineer that they have to participate in sing-a-longs. Or telling any highly skilled professional that they can have free pizza and ping pong in place of pay reflecting their hours. It's still fucking amateur hour, and it hurts us all in the long term.
Re:Pay? (Score:4, Insightful)
Fortunately that first part's not true. The second part isn't either, if you compare interns to average new grads. And not all interns are undergrads either; some interns are MS and Ph.D. students.
Well I guess if they're interning for Facebook that's a good thing.
Why would these be mutually exclusive? A paid internship is a temp job.
slideshow-like article (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Pay? (Score:4, Insightful)
Yes yes, yours is a typical story. Most interns become millionaires, and people are always rewarded for hard work and brains.
Re:This is how it should be (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:slideshow-like article (NOSCRIPT = NO SITE) (Score:3, Insightful)
What's more, with script blocking enable (via noscript) the site has no content below their header / drop-down menus. So much for graceful degradation...
Glad I checked the comments here before even bothering to temp allow their scripts, as stepping into such a multi-page steaming pile would have surely irritated me greatly.