Confessions4mo
by GoofyUnicornNanonets
DancingCupcake
Tell story of the worst intern that you had
TLDR;
Had a data science intern join our team. His resume was really impressive, good academic record, had a couple of research internship (NUS, IIT), 4 papers in journals etc. His interview was just okay, but we probably got biased by his resume which looked stellar. This guy didn’t know very basic python programming. We gave him basic task of converting a image dataset from one format to another(very first step of developing ML model). Took a week, constantly badgered all the team members, would just randomly copy code from ChatGPT, and if it won’t work, would ask us to solve it for him. Didn’t figure it out in a week, and at the end of week, we arranged a meeting with him about the update of work. Turns out, he didn’t even understand the task clearly. But we didn’t mind him, as it was his first week and we cut him some slack. The next week, I understood that he struggled in programming so gave him very basic task. He just had to figure out a command line program. Took two days, gave the result without any documentation, and the very next day he asked whether he would get the credit of his work and that it would account for his decision to full time conversion. Then he started taking a leave, EVERY WEEK. We used to have scrum call at 10AM, this guy wakes up at 10:30AM, and tells that he slept late and would come to office by 11AM( we had work from office policy), and he would come around 11:30AM. Would slack at work the entire day, give him some basic task, would keep asking silly doubts, copy paste code from ChatGPT and ask us to solve the bugs. Come to office without taking bath, no professionalism at all. One day I scolded him a lot, to come at time, learn some professionalism( if he doesn’t have good skills, atleast a humble attitude and professionalism should be there), but dude had no effect, comes at 12PM the very next day, missing the scrum call again. Was scolded many times, but didn’t have effect on him. 50k/per month stipend, completely wasted.
17mo ago
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ZestyQuokka
Stealth17mo
Very recent one
He was like Hansa (remember the Khichdi show). He did one thing at one time and takes min two weeks for each. He was with us for 4 months- none of his tasks are complete. He will do no-brainer work well; bring paper, pen, and coffee.
We had Hybrid mode with no restrictions. Initially he would just take leaves and not inform. When scolded, he would message random stuff and say he will work from home. What are you working on?!
When he was in office, he would never be in his seat. Constantly call him where are you? I'm at the canteen, I am having coffee, I was out to lunch, I will not be able to do this because someone else asked me to print a paper (stupid reasons)
End of tenure, he comes to me with some marks sheet. and asks for PPO. I look him dead in the eyes and say you know you haven't worked in 4 months, I cannot recommend. You can speak with my boss if you like.
Obviously he didn’t get PPO, called me again after a week, asking to look into it.
P.S. I gave him full marks because no point fucking up his career. He is capable of it himself.
P.S.S. I had interviewed him and felt such a failure to have hired someone like him.
MagicalQuokka
Stealth17mo
Nice of you to give full marks. Also, very reasonable to not even consider a PPO at all
DancingCupcake
Stealth17mo
Some people might think that I was too hard on the intern, and that it was our mistake that we hired him. Look, the interview process may be a little but faulty, or that we got fooled by his resume. But, even if that guy lacked the skills, he could’ve had atleast a little bit of professionalism, considering the fact that he was paid quite well for an intern. His attitude was horrible. No matter how politely we tried to explain him, or even scold him, he just wouldn’t learn.
GoofyDonut
Stealth17mo
Yeah for 50k if they didn’t have any skills they better make coffee, clean tables, drive vehicles and all haha
DancingTaco
Quest Global17mo
50k for interns 😱😱
2+ year experience
Working as a full stack developer
Arrive office at 9 and left office at 9
200+ jira tickets fixing per month
Building and designing architecture single
No girlfriend nor even friends
Lots loans
28k per month
ZippyPretzel
Nokia17mo
How did you manage to hire him without a programming round?
DancingCupcake
Stealth17mo
Usually for Data Science/ML roles, there isn’t a DSA coding round unlike SDE roles. Plus this role was inclined towards Computer Vision, and during the interview he was given very basic question around image processing/ML. I guess he knew a bit about the libraries to use and hence was able to pass through
ZippyPretzel
Nokia17mo
I mean I come from a DSP background I do understand this predicament, for this purpose I have a huge stored library of rf signal data that I send it over for them. But yeah you’re right. Knowing libraries is different from using them
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