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"approached by recruiters about potential internships." - Insulting. I would add those to my never list.
by us0r 10y ago
"approached by recruiters about potential internships." - Insulting. I would add those to my never list.
- Retr0spectrum 10y agoWhy is this insulting?
- raziel2702 10y agoI think it's because the parent would expect a job offer instead of an internship.
- Retr0spectrum 10y agoThat seems like an unreasonable expectation, considering he's still in full-time education - so he wouldn't be likely to accept a job offer in any case. It sounds like he only found XSS, which isn't exactly worthy of a job offer anyway.
- startling 10y ago> isn't exactly worthy of a job offer anyway. 1) XSS is game over for sites with authentication. What kind of vulnerabilities do you think are more important than XSS? 2) XSS is a result. There are a lot of complicated XSS bugs.
- ddworken 10y agoYup planning on going to college so not interested in any full time job offers (though I have received them...).
- chillacy 10y ago> Dworken, who graduated on Monday from Maret high school in Washington, D.C. I would've loved an internship as a new high school grad... most people don't get a tech internship till 2 or 3 years into college.
- rfrey 10y agoFor many people, "internship" means unpaid, that might be the source of the insult. I remember trying to recruit javascript programmers from the local maker/artist community, offering an internship that paid, I forget exactly, but something around $35/hour, which I thought was reasonable for an entry-level programmer. I got no responses, and later learned that my call was widely talked about as a scam, since everyone knew internships were unpaid or at best carried an honorarium.
- dionidium 10y agoI don't know how you learned that, but it's not the real reason you got no responses. It simply can't be. Programming internships universally pay. It might not be that way in other fields, but it's well known to be the case in tech.
- mgkimsal 10y agoWhy call it an internship? Why not just say "hiring jr dev"? And... $70k/year for a jr dev is still pretty high for a lot of areas.
- aphextron 10y agoI wouldn't want to hire a programmer who is willing to work for less than 70k (in the US)
- crazypyro 10y agoThink this depends on where you live...
- 67726e 10y agoSeriously, I've got 5 years experience and I'm making $86/K per year. Granted it's a startup, but where I live the market is pretty depressed. Anytime you see a Bay Area company relocate or open an office here you can guarantee it's to pay low wages, and they usually try lower than market.