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So she did this for free? :D please tell me this is a paid internship!

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I hope the rock you live under is heated, they're paid $6.6K a month + 9K-12K housing in the US.

2700 GBP a month, plus 1000 GBP housing (for a summer). Because Europe.

She started in Krakow, Poland. 2700 GBP/month is what the prime minister of Poland makes, it's an absurdly high salary for the local market there. I've friends who work as professional C++ programmers there and they make about 1000-1500 GBP/month working for huge corporations.

She worked on something completely different in Krakow, and earned a lot less (about 1000 euro I think). The compression work was in London, where 2700 GBP doesn't go a long way at all. Rent is about 1000 GBP for a room, and 2700 GBP is about 1800 net, so that leaves 800 GBP per month to spend on food, transportation and other expenditures.

I happen to know the person in the article. I was also an intern at Google this summer in Europe.

For an intern, that is insanely good.

edit: In fact, for a lot of people, that is insanely good! Apologies if I came across as an asshole when I said "for an intern".

No it isn't, especially considering it's 30% that what Google interns earn in the US, even in cheaper places than London (Pittsburgh, Seattle).

Also, it's a lot less than what competitors pay interns in London (Bloomberg, Facebook and Palantir pay interns a LOT better, among others).

I don't know, I think you have to look at what is good for a certain area.

In Poland, ~1000EUR/4000PLN/month is more than what an accountant makes. Teachers never reach this salary, even with 30+ years of experience.

You can easily live very comfortably on that salary, if there's two of you making that money you can buy a house and pay it off within 10 years or build one.

Being paid that much as an intern is just unheard of, most people I know would trip over and faint if they heard this.

No, Google interns are paid more than most devs in Europe.

Google's interns are paid well.

Unpaid internships are illegal, if the intern is doing real work for the company. https://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/whdfs71.htm

Not in the United Kingdom.

Although I'd imagine Google pay their interns

I did miss that it was in London, but I'm still surprised that there is some form of worker protection law that the US has that the UK doesn't.

There's pretty strict rules about what does or doesn't count as an internship though.

https://www.gov.uk/employment-rights-for-interns

> Unpaid internships are illegal Sorry venerable Sir, what planet you're talking about?

"But whatever your moral leanings, a judge on Tuesday confirmed what intern advocates have been alleging for years: a lot of these programs are illegal."

"it's hard to predict what appeals court judges will rule on any of these cases."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2013/06/13/are-u...

just want to point out that your link explicitly refutes your statement. They are not illegal and you linked to a test about legality of unpaid internships:

> There are some circumstances under which individuals who participate in “for-profit” private sector internships or training programs may do so without compensation.

Yes, there is a list of criteria in that section. This job fails to meet several of them, especially number 4: The employer that provides the training derives no immediate advantage from the activities of the intern; and on occasion its operations may actually be impeded;

Newsflash: There are more countries than the US of A and your laws do not apply here.

Yeah but Google is mostly a US company so it was an easy slip to make.

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