I, too, believe that most technology internships are a total scam. The usual phrase from a small company is that they want a 'rock star' ( insert your synonym

I, too, believe that most technology internships are a total scam. The usual phrase from a small company is that they want a 'rock star' ( insert your synonym here ) intern. I'm fairly certain that any 'rock star' intern can replace many hours of labor spent by an FTE. To put it in some perspective, and this is all personal point of view, I believe that a company in three to four months of a full time internship should be able to teach a computer science student ruby, rails to a working knowledge extent, the why's and how's of why rails is the way it is (the ups and downs of MVC, convention over configuration, etc), limited database knowledge, and some basic UI/UX considerations. Deeper knowledge into any of those (especially databases with CAP and the whole sql/nosql argument) would be valuable if there were any time remaining. And, obviously, the previous paragraph can be replaced by the equivalents in your specific niche. EDIT: spelling