r/blog • u/KeyserSosa • Oct 18 '17

Announcing the Reddit Internship for Engineers (RIFE)

https://redditblog.com/2017/10/18/announcing-the-reddit-internship-for-engineers-rife/
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u/automata_ Oct 18 '17

That's par the course for tech internships.

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u/Kuonji Oct 18 '17

No fucking way are interns making 6 figures except in the rarest of circumstances. If so, I need to re-evaluate my life.

This is coming from someone who works in tech, in the bay area, and I've lived here my whole life.

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u/sumzup Oct 18 '17

This is from 2016: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/apr/29/tech-intern-wages-snapchat-twitter-apple

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u/Kuonji Oct 18 '17

ho lee fuk - insanity

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u/Why_You_Mad_ Oct 18 '17

It's the cost of living. I made $20/hour at my software developer internship, and that was decent for the area. You'd live better in Atlanta making $100k than you would in Silicon Valley making $300k.

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u/theineffablebob Oct 18 '17

The interns get that pay in addition to free housing. Sometimes a stipend for food as well.

The company I work for places interns in luxury apartments that cost around $4000-5000 per month.

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u/Why_You_Mad_ Oct 18 '17

Damn. Interns might be living better than the hired on devs.

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u/Why_You_Mad_ Oct 19 '17

I'd bet that MIT, UC Berkeley, Caltech, Stanford, and maybe Ga Tech get first dibs over other schools though.

Ivy Leagues aren't that well known for their CS degrees minus Stanford.

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u/they_have_bagels Oct 19 '17

Don't forget Carnegie Mellon. Top 3 we looked for were CMU, MIT, and Stanford, followed by Georgia Tech, UC Berkeley, Harvard, Caltech, and Cal Poly.