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Facebook internships: What it’s like to intern at the Silicon Valley company
Facebook interns Danial Hussain and Konce Quispe.Samantha Lee/Business Insider; Rob Price/Business Insider
Silicon Valley internships are the stuff of legend.
Once spoofed in 2013 comedy film “The Intern,” interns at companies like Facebook and Google get the chance to try working at some of America’s buzziest companies — and can earn eye-watering salaries of $8,000 or so a month.
But does the reality match up to the hype?
Business Insider recently shadowed two interns at Facebook’s headquarters in Menlo Park, California, to see what a day in the life of an intern really looks like.
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