Recruiter: Will you like to do internship?

Me: yes,how much time I need to dedicate?
R : 40 hrs/week atleast

Me : Is it a paid internship?

R : No we will provide you with experience letter

Like seriously 40hrs/WEEK unpaid

Lol. Where I'm from that's literally illegal.

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@lucaspar i think you can guess it? Try?

And Thank you it feels great to be here

At least you will get experience. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@HelloBaze Are you serious??

With a little research, you'll find that most internships are actually illegal. Depending on the country.

@ODXT but 40 hours/week isn't bit too much for a unpaid internship?

@cybergod
That's what I mean, if during the internship you are doing actual work. Something that a normal employee should be doing. But you're not paid for it, in the States that would be illegal.

I'm not sure what the situation is where you live, but I wouldn't work for free. And yes, 40 hours + unpaid sounds fucked up.

@cybergod idk about legality 100% but I had an internship doing “programming” (more like data entry) in the medical field. They wanted me there 8-6 unpaid. I dipped out because uh, I have to work another job to live ?!

Edit: this was like 4 years ago now

This is a norm for Indian internships and I so hate them. They treat their interns like shit and think they're doing such a huge difference to someone's life by giving them an "experience letter". F*** off you Indian companies.

In our country that's normal. You give 40 hrs/week worth of time and work but then you're not paid for it because you "lack experience". I don't even complain because they're right and I need all the knowledge and experience I can get. But of course, a nice paying internship program is a big plus.

If I'm at your place, I'll took this opportunity and copy their all repos. And sell it on CodeCanyon... 😎

@mnafees more like Indian startups though. Here startups want interns to build their MVP things without paying them or paying them very less money. Don't know if you have fooled around career websites much or not but I saw the same things in startups of other countries but lesser in count than India

Its about as normal as it is to shit. They wont get a lot of you,but they will lose time to teach you

So most of you are right it's an indian company 😑

The problem is what they teach in India, especially in computer science, and it's relevance in the industry is like the relationship between drunk sex and photosynthesis. Most of the profs don't know shit about what's happening outside the textbook so the experience you get from those intern exploiting companies is really important to prove yourself regardless of how smart you are. Coz the grades don't mean anything and most companies (like almost all of them) know this.

Here in NL they are not legally obligated to pay for internships aka if your unlucky you have a 40h/w internship that unpaid and you can't do anything

@lucaspar unregistered startups can still do it.

@mnafees most of them are unregistered startups.

@vikaskr Not really. And I should clarify that some well established companies think that they're doing us a favor by giving "professional experience". Well we all know the Indian work culture. And the companies that pay think that we're still living in the 2000s where 10,000 rupees was something.

@mnafees it's because of less demand, high supply (not in terms of quality but quantity, most MNC don't care about quality anyway). If 1 person turns down a job due to salary 100 more are ready to take it. Thus lower the price.

In my country, it is not wrong to work 40h/week as a student for free during 3 months. However, they can't give you the work of a normal worker. I don't know how it is as a non-student, but they mention that if you work longer than 3 months, you should get paid.

In Germany this is a required part of school education...

In Denmark, companies are not either to pay you for your work either, but if they don’t, the state will pay you instead (though a lower amount than most companies).