Just did a brief interview today for a potential internship despite considering myself overqualified for an internship position at this stage. I joined because I thought it was an interesting company but the red flags were many and immediately apparent to me:
- they have 6 people working for the company and 20-30 UNPAID interns working for them at once.
- upon asking, they have no open positions and do not plan on hiring the interns, with no track to hire after.
- they plan on “sharing any job in the industry that sounds cool” with their interns. They might know someone to refer them.
- the person overseeing the interns (1 person) is responsible for overseeing all intern departments from graphic design to social media to marketing to business. Where is the growth potential to learn?
- they have a number of major names/companies listed on their site but upon asking what they did for these companies, they said they could not provide ANY details as there were numerous NDAs.
- they have mandatory daily zoom calls with all interns on the call at once, no other check in structure other than a shared Slack channel.
Am I crazy? Or is this terrible? Sorry guys needed somewhere to rant.