Pros: I found my internship very enjoyable. I was assigned the task of building an internal tool to help boost productivity. I had two mentors to assist me with requirements, but they gave me the freedom to build the application however I saw fit. Other observations: * Geico was very upfront about the large role of software development in the company's future, and they are on the tail end of retiring a bunch of legacy systems in favor of new, in-house .NET applications. * There is a large emphasis on test-driven development and unit test coverage, which is obviously a good thing. * I feel that Geico values software developers more than the average large non-tech company.

Cons: Some of my fellow interns weren't as lucky as me and said they were sometimes bored and didn't have much work to do. I didn't get a chance to work on an actual team so I can't comment on that side of things. The downsides of most typical large companies apply here.

Pros: Very flexible, remote work. Depending on what team you are on, you may be working on some modern technologies.

Cons: Depending on what team you're on, you may be working on really outdated, poorly maintained legacy systems, often chaotic and disorganized. Depending on the team, you could work late hours. PTO is low compared to other tech positions.

Pros: Long-term contracts, good usage of Microsoft technologies.

Cons: Stingy company, outdated work culture (COVID changed it a bit). Some teams are highly/openly racist. Contractors are treated as sub-humans. Outdated tech stack apart from the Microsoft tech stack.