The Top Paying Tech Companies For Interns

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!"

Comments

This is how it should be

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Re:This is how it should be

[CodeBuster]

Except that the code they write is often of poor quality or doesn't follow company guidelines or isn't the best approach to the problem at hand. Some of this is to be expected, they're interns after all and many of them have little or no real project experience. However, to say that the average intern is better than your senior employees strains credulity. Just because somebody works "all of the time" to "get things done" doesn't mean that the work is of good quality. It's more likely that these interns produce work that's of the same quality that one might expect of an apprentice still learning the skills and tools of the trade. I remember getting paid about half that much when I was an intern, but that was over a decade ago now (makes one wonder about the value of a dollar anymore).

Sing-a-longs huh?

[Anonymous Coward]

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?

[russotto]

Well, that's fine. The interns don't have any useful skills anyway, they're not even up to the level of entry-level fresh grad.

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.

And 99.9% of them think programming is all about social apps or other web sites.

Well I guess if they're interning for Facebook that's a good thing.

If they're paying $70,000 a year, stop calling it an internship and call it a temp job

Why would these be mutually exclusive? A paid internship is a temp job.

slideshow-like article

[manu0601]

Am I the only one to find annoying these multiple-page, sliedshow-like article?

Re:Pay?

[Darinbob]

Yes yes, yours is a typical story. Most interns become millionaires, and people are always rewarded for hard work and brains.

Re:slideshow-like article (NOSCRIPT = NO SITE)

[nyckidd]

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.