$30/hr? I think you're wildly overstating what typical interns make. Interns aren't full-time employees, and they come with zero industry experience.
$60,000/yr is more than the average starting full-time salary for a CS graduate.
Fog Creek --- they of the gold-plated Manhattan offices, the first class airplane tickets, and the fridges stocked with Louis XIII --- offers ~18/hr to interns.
$30/hr? I think you're wildly overstating what typical interns make.
Well, I'm only speaking from my own experience. I wasn't talking about "typical interns", because the original article specifically said they were looking for "amazing hackers". But I think most good student hackers will have a very good chance of getting an internship offer from Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, and so on, and AFAIK they all pay somewhere in the ballpark of $5k/month.
Interns aren't full-time employees, and they come with zero industry experience.
Sure, but if you want to hire top college grads, a very effective way to do so is to hire them as interns, pay them well, and give them a good experience.
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$30/hr? I think you're wildly overstating what typical interns make. Interns aren't full-time employees, and they come with zero industry experience.
$60,000/yr is more than the average starting full-time salary for a CS graduate.
Fog Creek --- they of the gold-plated Manhattan offices, the first class airplane tickets, and the fridges stocked with Louis XIII --- offers ~18/hr to interns.
But Fog Creek is small. Both of my offers for this summer were at least 30/hour.
Furthermore, the average wage at my school is 22/hour (for ECE interns).
I'm interested in what the company profiles were of the places that extended you offers (I know you don't want to name names).
$30/hr? I think you're wildly overstating what typical interns make.
Well, I'm only speaking from my own experience. I wasn't talking about "typical interns", because the original article specifically said they were looking for "amazing hackers". But I think most good student hackers will have a very good chance of getting an internship offer from Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, and so on, and AFAIK they all pay somewhere in the ballpark of $5k/month.
Interns aren't full-time employees, and they come with zero industry experience.
Sure, but if you want to hire top college grads, a very effective way to do so is to hire them as interns, pay them well, and give them a good experience.