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This was an intern, not an employee. Isn't the whole point of an internship to find out if someone is good enough to be employed? This one wasn't, so the inte
by billyjobob 13y ago
This was an intern, not an employee. Isn't the whole point of an internship to find out if someone is good enough to be employed? This one wasn't, so the internship was terminated and no job offer was made. No need to feel bad about it.
The article says the reason an intern was taken on was that hiring an employee would be too expensive. I guess the author learnt his lesson that this is a very bad reason to take an intern. An intern should not be relied on to do any business critical work. If you want someone you can rely on to produce production quality code from day one, hire an appropriately experienced employee.
- speeder 13y agoIn Brazil interns are supposed to be sort of apprentices, not people you are testing to see if you will hire them. For example unpaid internships are illegal, and although they don't get much benefits, their mininum wage per hour is higher (Brazillian law says mininum wage is monthly, but limits the number of hours a intern can work in a month, so interns hourly wage is higher). Also it was not business critial work, it was work that we could let the intern do and fail and whatnot, the problem is that the intern was so bad it disrupted the work of people doing business critical work.