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It's a recruiting program. The point is that you have someone work for you the summer before their senior year and then if they like it, they join you full time
by bobbyi_settv 10y ago
It's a recruiting program. The point is that you have someone work for you the summer before their senior year and then if they like it, they join you full time after graduation.
It's way cheaper to pay someone $6k or whatever for a summer to recruit them and then pay them a new-hire salary than to recruit someone "who already has knowledge and experience" and pay them the appropriate salary.
It's also more scalable and repeatable because you have an internship program that provides potential hires in batches funneled through colleges, whereas the experienced people you are talking about generally need to be found, courted and recruited individually.
- treehau5 10y agoIt's also brand awareness and marketing. Said student goes back to their university and starts spreading the word on campus about "how awesome my summer was working for X!" and how many "interesting" problems they got to solve. Many places will set aside specific, "interesting" side projects solely for the interns (while the rest of us engineers wish we could work on these projects, but are busy with the mundane tasks of keeping the lights on, which I imagine if you gave an intern this task they wouldn't be so thrilled to go spread the word when they go back, so yeah there's definitely marketing involved.)
- ihsw 10y agoIt's a pipeline, essentially. It has been established that the cost of baiting these college seniors is comparable to having recruiters attempt to woo them after they graduate, and as such. Interestingly, this contrasts heavily with the school-to-prison pipeline[1] increasingly occurring -- kids ending up in prison immediately after finishing their schooling. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School-to-prison-pipeline https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School-to-prison-pipeline