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by MattGaiser 323 days ago
It mostly pays in career benefits. Same reason why plenty intern for free.
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Who is interning for free as a software engineer?
People people who did bootcamps and thus are too risky to hire for most roles and cannot get into the standard CS hiring pipeline. Especially now that junior roles are drying up.

In professions like fashion, virtually everyone seems to at some point.

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