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in the new movie the internship Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson play middle-aged out-of-work salesmen that somehow land Google internships that's a Sharpie by the way genius spiteful the movie focuses on a fierce competition among the interns to get full-time jobs at Google but in real life the challenge is just landing a Google internship it was immediately captivating New York native and Yale student Florian Conan's burger is an intern for the marketing department this seemed like the smartest place to pick up a lot of different skills in one summer I've never been put in an environment where work and play are so sort of seamlessly integrated and still felt productive he is one of the 1500 interns selected this summer out of a record-high pool of more than 40 thousand applicants at that rate it's harder to get into the Google internship program than into Harvard or Stanford Kyle Ewing heads the internship program there's no best way to get into Google the end of the day we're looking for students who are smart who are creative who are leaders who are passionate inside and outside of work who care about their community and who really care about technology applicants must be full-time students if they make it past the written application phase they go through a series of phone and face-to-face interviews with questions reportedly ranging from coding to quirky in addition to the famous Google perks like free food campus bikes and gym access interns also get paid a competitive wage the average Google intern makes about fifty eight hundred dollars per month if you're a software engineer intern at Google you're making about $6,500 per month even more and that's upwards of 75 thousand dollars per year 75 thousand dollars per year is much higher than the average u.s. worker interns are expected to complete a project and get hands-on experience even in my first few weeks I had put out code that everyone was using and it was really cool to call my mom and get to say like mom mom look what I'm doing software engineer kit van der water intern for Google for two summers and is now a full-time employee as soon as I started my senior year I already knew I'd have a job at Google and that was really great peace of mind something most interns are hoping to get when they return for their senior year in San Francisco I'm Kara Tsuboi cnet.com for CBS News