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IBM - Only Tech Firm in Top 10 for Interns - BusinessWeek

by Ujwal Tickoo on July 30th, 2008

BusinessWeek has come up with rankings where Tech companies haven't fared well for Interns. Four of the Top 5 spots are taken by Big 4 consulting firms (some of which have Tech consulting practices). Only 1 pure-tech firm IBM is in the Top 10. The next spot 15th is taken by Intel.

If you are surprised that this ranking does not correlate with the popular FORTUNE's Best Places to work - Top 10 then the reason is in BW's methodology — they began with BW's Top 100 Best places to launch a career in 2007. For example in 2007 FORTUNE ranked Google as #1 place to work but it doesn't have a top 10 rank for Interns. However Delloite & Touche, E&Y, and PwC were in Top 3 of BW rankings in 2007 for launching a career and Google ranked 5th — however it didn't end in Top 10 for interns. So, FORTUNE's worlds best place to work isnt the best place to launch a career. ;)

Top 5 firms for Interns are (IBM is ranked 9th):

1. PricewaterhouseCoopers
2. Ernst & Young
3. Deloitte & Touche
4. Goldman Sachs
5. KPMG

See the slideshow at BW

The criteria used by BW:

To compile our list, we started out with the nearly 100 employers included in BusinessWeek's 2007 Best Places to Launch a Career, our ranking of top U.S. entry-level employers released in September. Next, we judged the organizations based on three criteria: the internship survey completed by employers, their ranking on Best Places to Launch a Career, and the undergraduate student survey conducted by our partner, Universum Communications.

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