Review of the EDG Internship Program
Review of the EDG Internship Program
- Free membership to science museum
- Discounted gym membership
- Free cookies on Friday
- Too much "micro-managing" (you literally have like 5 different people to respond to).
- Too disorganized (for the same reasons above).
- Not enough effort to facilitate interaction between the interns.
- Not as much pay and perks as other software companies.
- Noticeable difference between the treatment of interns and the treatment of full-time employees.
- You share an office with a full-time EDG employee who's most of the time on the phone solving technical problems using MATLAB® and Simulink®.
I think the hiring committee could have definitely made it clearer what the difference is between the EDG program and a regular software engineering internship program.
By not making this clear, a lot of interns (including myself) felt confused by what the program entailed, as well as about possible future employment at the company.
The truth is, the interns do NOT want to work in 'technical support,' and by not making this clear in the first place, it definitely felt like the company is desperate and somewhat deceitful to recruit more people for this position.
Why waste talent (some people had Masters and PhDs) on technical support? This is what online documentation is for.
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