Glassdoor, a site that delves into companies and invites employees to share feedback and pay scale, recently ranked the Top 25 Highest Paying Companies for Interns. These tech companies take their interns very seriously, as they are compensated for their entry level work. Here are some highly innovative technology giants where you can submit your resume to gain invaluable experience, learning from the best in the business, while getting paid handsomely.
1. Palantir Technologies 
Interns at Palantir help the team create software that connects data and technologies. The average monthly salary is $7,012, the highest recorded paying tech internship. On Glassdoor, an anonymous intern commented, “Work is motivated by a real mission. Very few people are there just for money.”
2. Twitter
Twitter pays its adept interns around $6,791 a month. The team hires young minds to assist with marketing strategies, coding, design, engineering, and data development, just to name a few categories. Intern Justin Chen tweeted,“Twitter doesn't just hire great engineers, it hires great people. It goes without saying you'll work with amazing engineers; the real joy is working with people who are hilarious, fantastically interesting, and generous with their time and teaching.”
3. Facebook
Facebook offers its interns an excellent reported monthly salary of $6,213 — a great place to get a head start in the tech world.
4. Linkedin 
Linkedin is said to pay its interns $6,230 with “excellent benefits.”
5. Microsoft
Interns can apply to work in Microsoft’s development, engineering, publishing, and other nontechnical departments. These temporary workers reportedly score $6,138 a month.
6. VMWare 
VMWare creates cloud and virtualization software, paying its interns around $6,966 a month.
7. Google
Current students can apply for an array of technical internships at Google in the engineering, software development, data, and various operation departments. Google interns receive $5,969 a month.
8. Apple
Students can apply to intern in the departments of design, finance, hardware, engineering, IT, marketing, operations, wellness, or communications. They earn $5,723 monthly. A software engineering intern at Apple stated, “In addition to providing free housing, which was at worst a 15-minute drive from work, or a $1,000 housing stipend, some teams provide free lunches and dinners to employees, and you're also eligible for all the other employee benefits, like health insurance, fitness center membership [and] product discounts.” Sounds amazing!
9. eBay
eBay offers a great intern program for both undergraduate and graduate students, paying its hires $6,126 per month. You can even apply for internships in the communications or public relations departments if tech development isn’t your specialty.
10. Nvidia 
As a company that specializes in virtual computing, interns can learn more software rendering skills while pocketing $5,446.
Story via Glassdoor
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