Intern Hunger Games in Full Swing With VC Shop’s Public Rankings

The summer interns at Insight Partners are learning the firm’s number one value— “hunger to win” — the hard way.

The New York-based company, known for taking early stakes in ventures like DocuSign Inc. and Shopify Inc., publicly ranks its investing interns using metrics like their phone calls, emails, and meetings, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The rankings are displayed on a so-called leaderboard for the firm, said the people, who asked not to be identified because they aren’t authorized to speak about it. Some full-time employees are also ranked, they said.

The ranking isn’t ...