Also a UW student. This is hearsay, so take it with a grain of salt, but it's totally something I can believe. One of the reasons why so many RIM jobs aren't

Also a UW student. This is hearsay, so take it with a grain of salt, but it's totally something I can believe. One of the reasons why so many RIM jobs aren't as 'exciting' as Microsoft or Google jobs is because in the last last generation of RIM products, they actually had coops do a lot of work that got released into production, and then started playing hell after they left for the term. RIM apparently got burned pretty bad with that, so now attempts to limit how much coop work actually goes into production. This was from gossiping with a RIM employee who I played Ultimate Frisbee with.