It's an Intern's World

Whirlpool keeps pipeline going with young talent
Aug 26, 2016 6:30 PM ET
Don Campbell / HP staff: From left, Whirpool Corp. interns Arindam “Baba” Mukherjee, Paul Giessner, Zakia Barnes and Jessica Green are pictured Thursday at Whirlpool’s Global Headquarters.

It's an intern's world

Arindam Mukherjee didn’t know what Whirlpool was before applying for an internship there.

He said he noticed the circular Whirlpool Corp. logo at a booth set up at the engineering career fair his school was holding. Mukherjee, an aerospace engineering major entering his senior year at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, spoke to a few recruiters from the home appliance maker and agreed to apply for an internship.

“I walked up and started talking to them because I thought it was a cool name,” he said. “The rest is history.”

The fair led to a 12-week stay in Benton Harbor.

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