What to expect, and how is the company right now? Especially in Global Tech in Charlotte? Curious on people's opinions and advice, especially for someone in my position.
I see this page is always buzzing with various discussions on anything and everything, so I figured it'd be interesting to hear people's honest feelings on the state of things.
Expect to lead. To hate corporate life. Expect to not learn anything useful.
Hopefully you will land in a rare oasis with a good manager and team, and actually learn stuff and add skills to build out your c.v.
At a minimum, you will learn what you do NOT enjoy doing, which can ironically be more important than learning what you do enjoy.
Advice: at the conclusion, if there are tasks you do not enjoy, then do not put them on your c.v. (invariably, that is precisely what some future hiring manager will see and that's what you'll end up doing. Not every experience or skill needs to be documented. Be Selective!)
@q0
absolutely, they should be naive
that way when they get sc--wed over the expression on their face will be priceless
you have to learn to enjoy the little things
thanks, great minds think alike
@y3
'Managers don't hire the interns. HR does.'
that's insane
@xt Managers don't hire the interns. HR does. All a manager does is make the intention known that they want one. Our team gets a newbie developer every year (that is what we ask for) and we assign them some basic automation or data manipulation tasks. Since the intern and manager aren't in the same city, your idea of the intern doing personal tasks for the manager is ludicrous. Interns have to give weekly feedback to the HR folks as well.
Expect that the incompetent manager who hired the intern will use them as their own personal assistant to benefit their own career. They will be just waste everyone else's time.
Expect to have the most useless experience on your life that will lead you absolutely nowhere. You will only waste your time, energy. The internship will lead you nowhere at best and actually is likely to ruin your future career. You will learn absolutely nothing useful at this sweatshop. Just use it to get h1b and once you have it leave this place.
I would say to expect a lot of red tape. This means each team’s processes are heavily evaluated and regulated so you have to get approval to make minor changes and the bank is slow moving. Don’t expect change to happen fast! small changes can take months and require a lot of approval from various cross functional teams.
Stay away from these boards. It is where people go to complain and there is one for every major company. Enjoy your internship, pay attention, and take the time to figure out where you want to work when you graduate. It could be a ticket to a direct hire in the current not awesome hiring environment.
My advice is stay away from this page. Learn, be professional, be on time. It’s simple.
Expect a large group of underpaid coworkers who have no pride in their job position and zero loyalty to the company, which will match the lack of loyalty and pride that the company has for it's workers. The sooner you stop caring about doing a good job the sooner you'll fit right in. Don't be a su---r and fall for the encouragement to try hard. It will get you nothing
@nb Interns at the bank are paid at approximately an $80k annual salary rate. They do not work for free.
Run… run away as fast as you can. You will learn nothing and your free labor exploited. Internships are a joke at this company.
We have had an intern for each of the past three years. All were hired and placed into other teams, doing nothing that they trained on with us.
@bs congratulations
Congrats on being picked for the internship! It will be an exciting experience, one that can lead you to a lot of good things, regardless if with us or elsewhere.
The program is good, but your experience will 100% depend on the team you get assigned to. Unless you interviewed with the team for which you would be interning for sure, and know what to expect from your work, your experience will be a lottery. People who get assigned to good teams have good experience, people who get assigned to bad teams have bad experience. If you get unlucky and get assigned to a bad team, my advice is to use your time to interview prep for better position somewhere else because whatever team you would intern with will be 99% your team post graduation (if you were to accept full time offer post internship). Treat this time as a vibe check of your future team, and if the team doesn’t pass it, run 🏃
run.....
Go linkedin and check previous intern who graduated from a top 10 schools, you almost see none of them ever come back as a full time associate....that speaks a lot....
I just left the bank a few days ago....
just feels so gooood.
run
You will be fine as am intern. Good luck!