Amazon

They actually treat you as a real engineer, with high expectations on skill sets. I was assigned a rather ambitious project to experiment on a new recommendation algorithm.

My manager actually cares about my progress, or what I am stuck on, even though he has limited knowledge of the codebase. He is always eager to talk more and point me to help.

The environment is fun. The breakout zone is always full of laughing crowds.

No free lunches. I heard about on-call duties; I'm not sure how that is, but I will find out this summer.

An intern is actually afraid and, most importantly, confused about coming into a big environment. The codebase is massive, people are serious, and senior engineers talk about crazy tech nouns they've never heard of.

Sometimes, a few suggestions for the next step are good.