You’ve mastered the art of making the perfect coffee, become bezzie mates with the guys down in the mailroom and have a fantastic relationship with the office copy machine – the life of an intern simply doesn’t get much better unless you manage to nab those free (admittedly slightly soggy) Pret sandwiches at the end of the board meeting. Unless you’re interning at Facebook.
Earlier this week, Business Insider UK reported on the perks of former Facebook intern Elizabeth Gregory and what it’s really like to work at the level of a full-time employee at the social networking giant’s HQ.
Free Food
Facebook offers ‘free meals daily for employees and interns’. Who the fuck wouldn’t want that? If we’re talking unlimited scran then there’s every reason to treat lunchtime like a big shop at Tesco.
Happy-hour Thursdays
Every week a bartender sets up camp next to the loos and creates cocktails on request. Shut-the-front-door. Mega-gutted if you’re under 21. And going by your Facebook profile, yes they do know when it’s your birthday.
Monthly pay cheques
Normally, the words ‘paid’ and ‘intern’ DO NOT go together. But it’s reported Facebook pays its interns an average of $5,600 a month and that’s after they’ve had their share of free booze. Lucky bastards.
Meetings with the ‘Big Man’
Sitting across the way from Zuckerberg himself calls for just the slightest bit of feeling star-struck. When the man actually acknowledges you – mate, that’s just a heart attack waiting to happen.
‘He was a really nice guy, and he always said hi to me walking around even if he didn't know exactly who I was. It was intense because he just spews wisdom at you, I was just observing, but it was cool to see what Zuck was like.’
Responsibility AND Independence
Again, there’s another two words you don’t see everyday. You mean the guys at FaceyB actually do things other than make coffee? Apparently so.
‘I worked harder than I ever had before,’ said one former intern of his time at Facebook, so be prepared to put the hours in for all those perks.
Ranking number one as the greatest internship this year and EVER. Compulsory margaritas and a desk that matches up to Mark Zucker’s. The only question that remains is how the hell do we apply?
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This article originally appeared on The Debrief.