For the past 20 years, Progressive has hired 70 to 90 summer IT interns, who are all housed full-time on the Cleveland, Ohio, or Colorado Springs, Colo., Progressive campuses from May until August. The internship program is an important part of Progressive’s IT hiring strategy — they aim to extend job offers to at least 90% of their interns at the end of the program.
Completing internships is a typical cornerstone for most college students, but COVID-19 has forced some companies to postpone or cancel internship programs due to workplace restrictions. Despite its quickly implemented work-from-home mandate in March, Progressive didn’t want to rob its incoming summer interns of the chance to gain vital job experience, even if they couldn’t do it onsite.
