Out of Office Special
From Pepperoni Math to Nepo Babies, Summer Is for Interns
Your first experience at work is not often forgotten.
Illustration: Sam Wood for Bloomberg Businessweek
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A few weeks into his college summer internship at a consulting firm in 2015, a guy (let’s call him Calvin) got his big chance to make a good impression. He was assigned to help a private equity firm assess an acquisition target—in this case, a company that manufactured pepperoni. “I was 21 years old, researching questions I don’t know if anyone knows the answer to, like the market size for pepperoni in the US,” says Calvin, who asked that his name not be used to preserve his current professional reputation.