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In software, if your company is any good, you hire good iterns and pay them a good wage to get an edge on hiring them once they graduate.

Plus, if you're hiring good interns, they will absolutely benefit you if you let them. Sometimes hugely.

An intern made Joel Spolsky several million dollars: http://www.inc.com/magazine/20090101/how-hard-could-it-be-th...

Not saying I was any good or my employer was any good, but at my first internship I wrote software in my free time that ended up saving the company tens of thousands of dollars a month.




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