Amazon

Impact is Amazon scale. Strong mentoring program. Good investment in employee growth.

The onboarding process is rough. Everything is done at the last possible second.

Intern projects are notorious for being poorly scoped or insufficiently vetted. They need quality control, as some are good, and others are horrible.

Make a real effort to improve onboarding execution.

Leverage a centralized intern project review board to ensure internship projects are properly scoped and well thought out. Track metrics associated with intern success and how they relate to different types/sizes of projects and alignment with the intern's current skills. Ensure the intern project review board makes recommendations based on these data points.