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Microsoft Interns Still Feel the Love
theodp writes "Despite layoffs and a blip in earnings, the Chicago Trib reports that Microsoft's summer interns still enjoy the VIP treatment. Although there were 20% fewer of them this year than last, still 85% of the interns are offered full-time jobs. In addition to being paid $4,600-$6,000 a month, a housing stipend, and relocation costs for the summer, the 600 or so Microsoft apprentices enjoyed other perks — such as a police escort to speed their way to a private museum party where they screened the most recent Harry Potter movie and were given a free Xbox 360. 'You feel like royalty to be escorted by police,' said Joriz De Guzman, an intern working toward his MBA at Wharton. BTW, before he got mixed up with those MBA-types, De Guzman earned some fame as the Doogie Howser of computer science."
Microsoft Police Escort
Look where all this talking got us, baby.
I'd still love to know the secret [of how to get an MS internship].
Big lips and a slack jaw.
If you want news from today, you have to come back tomorrow.
Just came back from the screening and yeah, that got me real angry too. Under the benefits section of the contract, I had no idea that the "free escort" was a lousy trip to the museum to see Harry Potter ! And I already had an Xbox !
Interns working on products that are going to ship.
Okay, so that explains Vista...
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And paying them so much, too. What the fuck is WRONG with Microsoft?
'You feel like royalty to be escorted by police,' said Joriz De Guzman, an intern working toward his MBA at Wharton
I don't know about this; when I got busted for drunk driving I had a police escort all the way to the station, but I didn't feel like royalty at all.
Wouldn't that be a gaggle of Google interns?
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Think about it though, would you have wanted an escort from Microsoft? She'd be bound to be full of viruses.
-ducks-
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