[LRUG] Juniors

[Michael Mokrysz]

> How many fresh graduates can afford the luxury of doing 6 month’s unpaid
work? Unpaid internships just seem so immoral, a company is not doing you a
favour by offering an unpaid internship, they’re just getting free labour.

Worse being treated as that worthless really drags down your career
expectations. Unpaid internships aren't "you help us for a bit and we'll
train you in return for salary" they're absolutely "we value your time at
zero." I've learnt very well (as an undergrad with a couple of years prior
experience) that mentions of unpaid internships are a red flag even if you
do eventually get a decent pay offer.


On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 3:09 PM, Andrew Appleton <andysapple at gmail.com>wrote:

> We take on Junior developers full time and as paid interns at GoCardless
> and have so far had nothing but good experiences. Invest some time upfront
> with a more senior developer and we’ve found we have a really enthusiastic
> employee who brings a new perspective to problems and who works well as
> part of our team.
>
> I've got a few teams/lone developers which take Juniors on as unpaid
> interns.
>
> How many fresh graduates can afford the luxury of doing 6 month’s unpaid
> work? Unpaid internships just seem so immoral, a company is not doing you a
> favour by offering an unpaid internship, they’re just getting free labour.
>
>
>
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