Kombucha, climbing walls, free plane tickets for parents, and hard work - A day in the life of a Silicon Valley intern
Becky Peterson/Business Insider
While everyone knows about the perks of corporate tech, we wanted to find out for ourselves what it's really like to intern in Silicon Valley. So last month we visited the Sunnyvale, California, campus of LinkedIn - the employment-focused social network that Microsoft acquired last year.
LinkedIn hires about 300 interns each summer and spreads them out among its offices in Sunnyvale, San Francisco, New York City, Chicago, Singapore, and Bangalore. Those interns have a great shot at a full-time job at the company. About 69% of last year's intern crop eventually were hired by LinkedIn.
Our tour guide for the day was Ana Carolina Mexia Ponce, an interface engineering intern who will be a senior this fall at Stanford. She showed Business Insider what it's like to intern at one of Silicon Valley's big companies.
Here's what we saw.
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