[inquist]

> an intern who wrote code .... his code had been in production

You get what you pay for, eh?

[darkwater]

A cronjob to sync the time instead of a proper NTP client doesn't sound that good either. I know that each place has its own weird things because historical reasons but NTP is quite ancient.

[knodi123]

Our sysadmin was being paranoid about how many memory-resident programs we ran. he figured time syncing wasn't important enough to justify a daemon, so he just ran the ntpdate command on a daily schedule. It wasn't that bad - after all, how far can clocks drift in a single day!? ;-)

[mywittyname]

I've done equally stupid things as a senior dev. The biggest difference, I guess, is that I had to fix the stuff I broke.

[closeparen]

Delivering real functionality in production (with code review from your mentor, of course) is absolutely standard at a Big Tech or hot startup internship.

[mypalmike]

Depends. FAANG interns can make (annualized) income at or near 6 figures.