Facebook Comes Out on Top, Google Slips to Third, in Survey of Corporate Interns

Vince Vaughn took a film crew on the Google campus to film the 2013 comedy, internship, skewering both ignorant and cutthroat moviegoers and introduction to over-the-top benefits of Google, all of which were fictitious.

And indeed, back in 2013 Google was the best place in the country to land an internship, as operator of the recruitment site glass door. Then answered a survey noted, "Google treats better than full-time trainees."

But in the survey this year glass door to corporate trainees, published just in time for the internship hunting season, Google slipped to number three, behind Facebook and Chevron. Why?According to a glass door, it's not all about the benefits, if Facebook certainly has its share. Facebook trainees welcomed the opening of the corporate culture, the ambitious projects assigned, and probably the most important factor, the fact that much of their work is actually out in the real world.This is not to say the benefits do not count at all; many trainees mentioned the free food and abundant, games of all kinds, and pub crawls; there was, however, a serious lack of nap pods. (Google, it turns out, only offers special advantage).Tech companies held in 12 of the 25 points of the survey, with seven of the top 12 companies headquartered in Silicon Valley. Besides Facebook and Google, the first places in Silicon Valley for trainees included eBay at number five, Yahoo jumped from 14 in 2014 to number six, Apple at number 11, number 14 HP and Intel at number 24. Apart from the Bay Area, the top 25 included Epic Systems (7) Microsoft (13), Qualcomm (16), National Instruments (18) and Broadcom (25).Glassdoor said that 4,700 businesses across the United States are currently on the lookout for 2,015 trainees, with 1500 courses open to Bay Area companies.