A former intern, referred as Brad, revealed that the company can pay interns up to $7,000 a month, or $80,000 a year. However, the interview process at Apple is way different than at Google and Facebook, where candidates are interviewed for specific roles by their managers, instead of a general interview and then placing on specific teams after hiring.
Other than an extremely well-paid along with overtime compensation, Apple also offers free housing in the Bay Area on a sharing basis. If you choose not to live with other interns, the company gives you $1, 000 for monthly rent. If you move out of the Bay Area to work for Apple, it pays around $3,300 to cover your travel and stay expenses, a report on Business Insider notes.
However, as luxury comes at a cost; all these facilities and more than decent pay for interns, demands absolute confidentiality. And when Apple says confidentiality, it means not even a whisper goes out about it. No, not even details about your accomplishments on the resume; or pictures of the campus on social media. It is almost like a secret mission where the identity of the organization is as big a secret as its projects.
Brad says Apple’s goal is to surprise and delight, so the company likes to keep their projects as secretive as possible and ensures that employees from different departments don’t find out what each other are working on by blocking off access to certain buildings on campus.
The secrecy is to the extent that at times Apple employees work on a product without even knowing what exactly it is. For example, one employee who worked on the original iPad displays in 2010 for two years said he did not know what the 9.7-inch displays were for, until Steve Jobs unveiled the final product on stage.
The tech giant also gives interns opportunity to meet with the C-suite of the company through a speaker series that runs once every few weeks.
While all this brings the question about what happens after the internship period ends; a lot of interns are absorbed full-time at the company if they excel in their job. The kind of loyalty Apple is able to achieve out from even the interns makes people stop looking for other jobs.