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Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson have made interning in Google seem easy in the film The Internship, but in reality, joining the multinational IT company is anything but laidback. Nevertheless, the perks are high for those who have completed the three-month internship.
In the U.S., Google selects only 1,500 students out of some 40,000 applicants each year. These select applicants must have impressive grade point average, past internship experiences, and extracurricular activities (like creating apps). Once shortlisted, they are scheduled to technical phone interviews. “It’s figuring out if you can scale a system, or you can make something much more efficient,” says Rohan Shah, an intern at Google’s Android department. Once they have passed the make-or-break phone interviews, the applicants are scheduled for team interviews, which will introduce them to different Google departments.
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The official internship program begins by inviting the students to live in a corporate housing in San Jose’s North Park. Food and lodging, as well as gym membership and laundry services, are provided by the company. Interns are also oriented about Google’s data centers and the company’s functions and goals. After this, they are assigned to work on different projects, where they are paid an average of $5,678 per month.
Life after an internship at Google is promising. Often, interns are offered a full-time position by the company. Rohan Shah, for example, has been working as a software engineer since his graduation and is reportedly making $80,000 every year. He and other Google interns are the epitome of Larry Page’s vision when the CEO says, “We don’t just want you to have a great job. We want you to have a great life.”
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