Biggest Ref flag Accolite Digital
So I have been interning at Accolite Digital as an Swe. I got the opportunity via oncampus drive. They offered a 6 month internship+ FTE(8 lpa CTC and 3 lpa as retention bonus). After 4 months of internship they randomly terminated internships of 10 interns stating their performance was inadequate which was complete bullshit as I knew those interns worked really hard. Later the HR told us that they have reduced the retention bonus from 3 lpa to 2 lpa without having any discussion with us. After 6 months of internship they again forced around 20-30 interns to hand over their resignation as they have found better opportunity but the reality was that they didn't have projects to allot to them and didn't want to display it as layoffs. After all this shitholery they gave the rest of us an extension of 2 months till 15th of October and today they told us that they have further extended our internship till December. During this period of time I worked my ass off for this shit organisation and worked late at night to connect with the client. They only paid us 20k as an internship stipend and expected us to be present at the office all 5 days a week. The worst thing is that I initially had 5 job offers in hand and I had to reject them all to accept this one. They also have 1 year of bond which they won't wave off. I am literally shattered and actively looking for better job opportunities as a SWE fresher with 8 months of internship experience. I would beg the community to please like this post as much as they can so that someone who is actively hiring who could see this. Also if any of u guys have any openings at ur firm please do consider me!!
I have seen some other companies also doing the same thing and would suggest you not to panic as there are job openings coming up. Even I got a job recently after the company where I interned didn't convert my internship regardless of the fact that I worked a lot for them.
Here's what I can share from my experience: Have a nice profile on LinkedIn, Naukri, Indeed, Wellfound and other job platforms. 6+ months of internship is great to have on resumes. Many HRs call by looking at your profile. Have atleast intermediate level projects on your resume, small projects aren't good enough. I am a MERN stack developer and I was able to apply 4-5 jobs daily on LinkedIn during weekdays, sometimes it use to go 10+.
You have time till December so you can plan which company is good to work at and go for cold emails/reach out to their HR. Normal posts looking for jobs are relatively less effective. And always try to get referral as there are thousands of people applying for same job. You can get shortlisted without referral too but chances are less. I wasn't getting shortlisted with just frontend projects so I learned fullstack and then I was able to get shortlisted regularly even without referrals. Manage both dev and DSA equally. Many companies will also give assignment as part of their hiring process while some can have DSA as first round.
Note: Don't fall for scams, do proper research for any companies that reaches to you and if a company asks for money during hiring process u can take it as a red flag.
Thanks a lot buddy!!!!
I see the same happening at my current org. Intern having internship extended and not having work for them. Its the same everywhere