4. Yahoo: As Yahoo is engaged in cost cutting, it was quite astonishing to see that the company took the fourth position in the list of tech firms that pay their software engineering and development interns the best. Yahoo pays $6,035 per month to its interns. It is assumed that in order to attract some real talents to the company, Yahoo is paying off well to its interns. Also it is reported by the news sources that approximately 700 million users visit the website every month.