I now work for Dell

[Professor S]

Hmmmm... merger... not good.

Start busting your ass at you job starting NOW. With any merger there will be redundancies/fat to be cut and inevitable terminations. If you can stay above the cut, there is often a pay raise for the survivors.

[Vampyr]

I'm actually just an intern, and unless you do something incredibly stupid, they won't fire interns.

However, I was hoping to be hired on full time whenever I graduate. Not sure if this hurts that possibility or not.

The way Perot is set up, there are a lot of small accounts that work semi-independently, so it will mostly depend on the individual needs of this account, I guess. I only work with about 7 other developers, so we are already a small team.

[Professor S]

You should be in good shape then, and by the time the merger sorts itself out you could be in a very nice position while they start the hiring process again after the initial bloodbath and they realize they terminated employees they actually needed, or need new employes to train/coach from scratch.

It's the corporate circle of life.