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Unpaid interns be like- Grapevine

I remember casually mentioning this early in year, no way they actually listen 
I'm gonna add so many memes now 🤣🤣

Grapevine added Image in Comments!!

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Lol! The support team of Grapevine does not respond at all. It's been 2 weeks. :D
So, I could not think of any other way than post here.

Grapevine - I am not able to log in with desktop web version

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IIT grad here building a venture backed startup. I think 99% of folks here believe that venture backed founders are super entitled and in a much "cosier" position than employees

Just sharing a few facts about our journey so far if it helps anyone improve their perspectives-

1) Paying ourselves 33% of our campus salary & 60% of what we are paying to our employees (Talking about Pure Base Salary here, not including ESOPs)

2) Insane stress - You basically have to raise money to build (esp if its deeptech because of the high fixed costs) and there are predefined metrics you have to always chase, sometimes just beyond yourselves. 

Your product will be copied if it's good because well, they always have more money than you. You work 7 days a week for insane hours, chasing metrics required to be "afloat" 

3) 99% of venture backed startups result in 0 liquidity gain for founders. So basically in all likeliness, everything is for a net negative return compared to if we took the campus job

So, when you wholeheartedly bash founders as if they are sitting On a goldmine while you are toiling for THEIR gold Treasure, just understand that more likely than not, there is not really any gold but rather an irrational hope they are clinging to

Also, Yes-we pay above market to our employees (100% hike for the last one) but the truth is some startups just Can't afford it. And ironically, there is a much higher looking down on these startups with meagurely paid founders rather than giants like Tech Mahindra paying peanuts to their employees while having a 1000% salary hike for the executives. 

Yeah, most startups need to do better but please appreciate if someone is atleast trying to do better because trust me, it's INSANELY HARD.. 

The number of posts I see about Flipkart making hundreds millionaires is way too less than the ones I see about pinpointing at every single mistake early stage startups do & I just wanted to express my opinion on it

Peace!

People way overestimate the life of founders

Founder

Underpaid over enthusiastic intern at a pre seed startup

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is unpaid intership a thing in the tech industry?

Database administrator

This person, say ABC, has been cribbing not finding an internship

I try fix one for them

Instructions I get, stipend should be 10-15k/mo, or won't do

Umm, I mean?

GenZ's (over)confidence amazes me

#InternsArePeopleToo

Intern

I'm a final year grad student who is working as an intern in a startup. It's a small team, and I'm the owner of 2 projects. Recently I've been feeling overworked and underpaid. I'm an intern who is working at the capabilities of a full-time and more. How do I have this conversation with my boss?

How do i tell my boss I'm overworked

Software Engineer

@president_trump's meme really made me do it 😂

Hello people, 

Hope Monday is bearable :) 

Welcome to the watercooler: the place for any conversations that feel a bit small to create a dedicated post. Manager acting shady today? Had a heavy weekend and still not recovered? Office food was stale? This is the place to share anything random.

Look forward to hearing from you all :) 

- The Unpaid Intern
Disclaimer: For legal reasons I must confess I do get paid

Watercooler: 26th Feb

Don't remember seeing the Daily Watercooler for a few days. 

Has Peak XV claimed its first "lets optimize the workforce" victim?

Where is the UnpaidIntern?

Sales manager

Don't join Quicko.
They are over now
The founder is a moron
People are found to be working till 6 am in morning
Absolutely no work life balance 
Total shit bullshit
Founder Vishvajit just fucked the product
Interns are cheap labour 
For those who are using their products, remember the atrocities the employees went through building this, totally not acceptable

Don't join Quicko

Life is full of irony only

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Found this in reddit post - https://www.reddit.com/r/developersIndia/s/N1prCJKTeZ

Isn't this total shit storm?

From paid -> unpaid -> you paying for internship. We sure have evolved! Wtf is this shit?

We hire interns occasionally, and the market for interns is so bad right now, students are approaching us to work for free (we do pay a stipend and don't ask for free work).

Companies aren't even hiring that many interns, and college students need internship experience to add to their resume and compete in the market. 

Heck, MSMEs are shutting down and MNCs are doing layoffs, not very inspiring. We've managed to survive somehow through all the covid ups and downs.

Would like to know more from students on GV, what's your college internship and placement scenario like? What are you doing to stand out?

If you think IIT IIM students have it bad, take a look at other colleges

Generalist

Hey everyone, I've been on the hunt for a product design internship for the past 1 month. I came across a lot of internships, but they were willing to take me only at zero cost.

What would you do in this scenario? What other ways can I explore to find an internship ( I'm a junior doing my UG).

THANKS :)

Senior designers, do you think I should do an unpaid internship?

Someone mentioned they would write a watercooler post on Grapevine every day, but now no one knows where they are.

Grapevine needs a paid intern

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I am currently in my final year of pursuing a Bachelor of Computer Applications (BCA) degree and am seeking opportunities for paid or unpaid internships in Full Stack Web Development. I would appreciate it if you could inform me of any available positions or openings that match my interests and skills.

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