Do you have funny/weird internship stories?

Recently had a chance to interview at a pretty mature startup(moengage), a recruiter called me up, we set up a time and date for a machine coding round. I was pretty excited to be honest and looking forward to the interview. Fast forward to the day of reckoning , I join the interview with my intellij set up, my pen and paper to draw the ERD ready and my mind full of design patterns, only to be confronted with two DS & Algo questions(i legit gave up the moment i heard ds), the questions were interesting and the interviewer chill but it blindsided me by a whole lot and I couldn’t solve anything. It’s pretty weird that startups with so many resources at their disposal could be so out of sync internally.

I remember making 7000/month and spending all of it on travelling by Uber everyday because my dad didn't let me use the car and the Summer heat was making me melt. I needed an AC so I instantly blew almost 4000 rupees/month on just Ubers. With the rest I went to a nice restaurant with my mom+dad for lunch and it is my most memorable moment in life. I felt like I had grown up. The internship was also nice and I learnt a lot of things about building systems for a startup. It was one of the best 8 weeks I had spent learning something new and cool. I bet I used to look like Shinchan in this picture when I was in the office and seeing 40 year olds talking to 20 year olds like they were their buddies. I was about to call them uncle hahaha. What was your story from your First Job/ Internship?

So there was one company I was being interviewed at for position of product role. They told me to make a mobile app, not an actual one just on paper but it was a lengthy assignment and took me 5 days to complete it. (Day and night with minimal sleep) Now in the deep assignment discussion round the interviewer asked me why I built an app. In my head the answer was you guys only told me to build it😂😂 but I managed to fake something for sophisticated. Mention below if you have some funny interview stories.

I’m looking for an internship. I already worked with a startup for 3 months which went fine. I’m in the “market” again but I had some weird experiences. Some of the interviews were too tough. One of them literally said “I’ll be sending u the offer letter” and then ghosted me. And one of them didn’t reply at all after the interview. 🥹

Intern swore at the team lead? Manager got extra close to reportee? Mine: saw an new joinee use pick-up lines on CEO's girlfriend (she worked in the same company)

Just wanted to know what are some of the weirdest things you’ve seen your co workers do? My co worker at a previous organisation used to take milk packets home which were to be used in the coffee machines.

I recently received an internship offer for founder's office intern at one of the smaller us based start-ups with remote work , this is the first time I m gonna wear this hat, i have 1 2 product internships but here i am gonna do everything whether it is tech, marketing, content, email management . There is 15 days probation period which is very crucial and 1 month internship,how can I shine out . Any advices as ita very important for me as a stepping stone.

Had a weird job interview experience a few days ago, for a pretty senior-ish PM position. This was the first round interview with the team after a basic recruiter round. Hiring manager joins the call on his phone with camera off. Sure no problem. He was presumably on AirPods with terrible sound quality, and his internet connection was terrible too. I could hear 2 out of 5 words. I pointed it out immediately, thinking that he would change his internet connection or something. But it continued throughout the interview. I kept telling him that I can't hear him to either repeat himself or point out that its his internet connection. This ended up breaking the flow of the conversation. He turned on video during the interview, I even told him to switch off his video to improve the quality. Barely improved even then. Still told him that I can't hear him. He even changed his room to see if it helped. Didn’t. He should've been embarrassed by now? He didn’t suggest an alternative — to move to a phone call or reschedule later, wondering whether I should have. I've never faced this before, so didn’t know what was appropriate. Then towards the end, puts on his video again and I see that he is eating something. 💀 I don’t know if this is normal??? If he was so busy, he could've possibly rescheduled instead of wasting both our time. He chose the time. I know it's an employer's market, but how bad is it?

P.S. Not GenZ, but relate to vibe as a concept I've interviewed with multiple companies, and I'm starting to notice a pattern. Interviewers who: - Have their cameras off - Show up in old t-shirts, looking like they haven't washed their face or combed their hair - Roll their eyes when the answer isn't what they wanted to hear - Fidget around when you are speaking - Look anywhere but at the camera - Give in to itches all over the body 👀 among many others If we as interviewees are expected to be presentable and excited, the least interviewers could do is put in a little effort to appear decent and engaged.