The list includes 97 tech firms — including Palantir, Quora, Dropbox, LinkedIn, Facebook, Uber and Google — alongside a few non-tech names who are in the market for coding interns, like Goldman Sachs and Boeing. The data we have includes the base monthly salary for engineering interns, the monetary value of their monthly benefits and what kind of internship it was.
Tech companies are notorious for paying out more to their interns than almost any other field, including finance, where brand names like Goldman rest on the laurels of their prestige as an excuse to skimp out on handing out fatter checks.
That’s to say nothing of the little perks. According to our data, nearly every company on this list includes some kind of free meal, and in keeping with startup culture, many of these interns get access to housing, gym memberships and the possibility for overtime pay. Hell, a prior Uber intern reports receiving full health benefits. Most of the submissions came from Software Development Engineers (SDE’s), or college kids who can perform—and often do perform—the daily work of low-level coders.
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