Comments on: Wooing interns to Silicon Valley

Students working at companies like Google enjoy lots of perks and hands-on training. But a stint at Microsoft gets you a date with Bill Gates.

[Chong Yew]

What? No date with Jessica Alba???

What? No date with Jessica Alba?

[Marcus Westrup]

I wonder -

Why are the High Tech companies of the world so intent on only looking for students to work for them? By Googles own criteria, Linus Torvalds would not have had much chance of getting a job there: Linus even admits that his first effort at Linux was embarrassing because he lacked the skills. A few years of experience had to happen first, and I don't see that Google is willing to wait.

[DecliningUSDollar]

Silicon Valley - boohoo

Wait, what happened to all of the CS grads back in the late 90s? Oh wait, I remember - they were working 80+ hours a week, at startups, the bubble burst, companies left and right offshored CS and engineering jobs to India and Pakistan, then no one with tech skills in the US could find a job. Then a recent CS grad had the employability of a philosophy major.