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A bit of advice. Do check that you are not doing an internship with immature first time CEOs/CTOs. I've seen an intern lied to, abused and dismissed without r
by throwaway7808 13y ago
A bit of advice. Do check that you are not doing an internship with immature first time CEOs/CTOs.
I've seen an intern lied to, abused and dismissed without recommendation letter and promised salary by a CEO/primary founder of a YC company that I was with. This was no fault of that intern and AFAIK was done primarily because that [recently immigrated from India] CEO wanted to save about $3k of moneys. One of the reasons I've left that company and dropped from YC BTW...
edit: a clarification. this is anecdotal evidence and probably doesn't reflect statistics of YC companies in general.
- argonaut 13y agoI agree. However, as with all things in startups, while there are a lot of founders who are still very inexperienced with managing, there are also probably some founders who are fantastic mentors.
- CaptainBuggy 13y agoInteresting how you consider "[recently immigrated from India]" to be relevant here.
- throwaway7808 13y agoI don't know. Maybe I'm very wrong here. But I think there is a correlation between 'fighting for scraps' behaviour and 'recent immigrant'. I do not have statistics to confirm that.