December 22th afternoon news, technology companies located in San Francisco Bay Area, United States, not only fierce competition for full-time employees, the current competition will be extended to the summer intern. Google and other large companies have started to expand its summer intern program, and other small companies are also doing their part.
The cloud storage service providers-Dropbox’s engineering manager Rian Hunter said the company plans to hire 30 summer internship software engineers next year, and this year, only nine. Company hopes that practice software engineers can account for one-third of the total number of engineers.
Hunter said that more interns means that more novice will enter companies, Dropbox even expand the scope of the intern to college freshmen.
3D desktop application developer-Bump Technologies CEO Dave Lieb said that practice allow the company have the opportunity to select staff before the employment. The company plans to recruit 10 summer interns in next year. At present, the compensation is $ 10,000 for intern’s 12 weeks internship.
According to the intern service website InternMatch statistics, 93% of the Silicon Valley entrepreneurial technology companies were recruited or are going to the recruitment of interns.
