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Wow, I'm interning at a software company in the Bay Area and my normalized hourly wage is way more than $15/hour. Is it just me, or do a lot of firms these days just exploit cheap labor as a way to avoid admitting that their business models are actually quite low-value?

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They've been doing that since the dawn of the internship. Students are just starting to not accept that kind of crappy treatment

I think that is just Bay Area and/or tech bias. My own internship years ago started at $15 and quickly scaled up. I was going to community college at that time. *typoed

Ok, in support of your point, I got my BSc Comp Sci in 2011, have previous professional experience, and I'm really just working full time for two months while on grad-school vacation. So while I'm justifiably not paid as much as the real full-time engineers here, I'm more valuable to the company (I would hope!) than an average college sophomore doing his/her first internship in his/her own profession.

Again: anecdotal evidence, disregard that I suck bananas, etc.

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