Google, Facebook, Uber, Airbnb, etc treats their interns like royalty through obnoxiously high wages, swag, housing, food, and more, while some other field's interns are doing grunt work and "paid in experience"

Just wanna add to this: not every part of tech gets the same treatment either. Look at IT majors, our math, theory, and code fearing cousins. They don't have much of an internship culture. For those who actually do them, the roles, pay, and prestige are lightyears behind. They don't really have a concept of Big N's either. Most IT jobs are pretty much in stuffy office environments getting yelled at by people who don't understand technology. Who goes into tech to do customer service? Nobody wants to pay for full-time IT workers either, much less interns. The sadder thing is, they'll probably never escape user support/customer service throughout their careers. And some of them have the audacity to think they're equivalent to us when we get paid much more, work at better companies, get more respect, and never have to touch user-support from day one. Without the stuff that we make, they'd have nothing to support.

So let's take this time to also acknowledge those of us CS folks who weren't weeded out by discrete math, Algorithms 1, Calc 2, and pretty much every CS class designed to break-or-make us for all 4 years (or more). CS is a very rigorous major and the dropout rate is still astronomically high even today. We may not all be the 'smartest,' but we're definitely the hardest working and mentally toughest. Whether it be a difficult problem, homework, project, or class, we didn't let it break us. We worked through it and many of us even crushed it. If we failed, we tried again until we succeeded. Everyone who made it through CS, all put in work. We deserve these opportunities because we earned it. Our reputation is great not because we can do more math, it's because choose to take on something difficult and see it through. Major tech companies know this, which is why they come looking for us and not other majors. So here's to us, my Kings and Queens. May the opportunities continue to flow and views from the top never get old. Cheers.