What year was this in? It wasn't my experience in college in 2010-2015 at all. Many SV companies recruited mostly useless interns like me and mentored us and p

What year was this in? It wasn't my experience in college in 2010-2015 at all. Many SV companies recruited mostly useless interns like me and mentored us and paid us well over the median US household income. All in the hopes that we would become useful and join after graduation (at well over six figures salary). And I'm Canadian so they were also paying flights, relocation, visa fees, etc. It doesn't make a lot of sense for them to do these things if it's so easy to hire an American developer at $50k, but maybe their hiring process is that broken?