I've been surprised at how many people think it's reasonable for companies like Lyft and Google to cut intern pay IME, opportunity cost of having senior devs ramp up interns dominates monetary cost, making intern pay cuts pointless https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23047687 … https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22954012 …
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From the linked threads, Lyft was paying $10k/month not 2k/month. My guess is most internship’s senior dev time is worth less than $5M/yr (full time comp seems like a better baseline?); hard to believe the recruiting is worth the cost at that point.
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This is a different topic, but IMO, it's very difficult to defend hiring interns and non-senior devs on practical grounds and the case should be made on general principles or morals. I think people don't feel comfortable making that case and then make up bogus practical cases.
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An *extra* $5m/yr? What kind of team makes possible this kind of impact on the bottom line? A compute platform team?
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Here's one example of that kind of thing. This one was found by profiling, but the density of these kinds of bugs is high enough that I've also found these when just browsing around at every large company I've worked for. https://danluu.com/algorithms-interviews/ …pic.twitter.com/AVrWA4480u
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