r/internships

Pretty much what the title says. I'm an EE major planning on graduating in Fall 2027 and I'm deciding between two offers

Job 1 Summer '27 Internship @ Fortune 500 company
Pros:
- Pretty much guaranteed full time job after grad. Return internship for Summer '27 + verbal full time offer for after I graduate
- Worked here the past 2 summers and already know the team
- Solid pay: $32/hr + housing, $80-90k base + 15% bonus for full time
- Get to graduate in my planned 4.5 years
- Near a big city that I love
Cons:
- I wouldn't even be an engineer, my title would be shift manager. I'd oversee the union workers
- Dirty/hot heavy industrial environment
- 50+ hour weeks and can get called in anytime
- Limited upward mobility/pay growth. There aren't many positions between entry level and plant manager, and promotions mostly depend on someone above you retiring
- Terrible location. Could live in a nearby metro, but with a long commute and more expensive rent
- Not an industry I wanna be in at all

Job 2 Spring '27 Co-op @ Fortune 50 company
Pros:
- Huge name on my resume
- More interesting work/industry
- Closer to home so I could live with parents for a few years and save money
- Great pay: $40/hr intern, ~$100k+ base + bonus full time (conservative estimate)
- Better promotion/pay growth potential
Cons:
- Delay graduation from 4.5 years to 5
- Give up essentially a guaranteed full time job
- No guarantee of a full time offer here
- I've heard work culture can be bad (high workload/long hours, amongst other things)

TLDR: Is it worth delaying graduation for a co-op at a better company with more long term upside, even if it means giving up a pretty much guaranteed fulltime job after graduation?

I'm leaning towards the 2nd offer because the quality of life, pay, resume value, etc. would be better, but graduating later and losing out on a guaranteed job after graduation in this market is scaring me. Money/tuition while I'm in school also isn't an issue.

To clarify, I just finished my degree and got a really great job offer as an internship, paying around $115,000. I know offers like this don't come around often, especially right after university, so I'm genuinely torn about what to do.

My grandmother lives abroad and her health has been getting worse. I had told her before that I would come visit her, and part of me feels like this might be one of the last real chances I have to spend time with her for a while, and maybe even the last time.

I'm excited to start this job and I don't want to waste a big opportunity, but at the same time I don't want to look back later and regret choosing work over family. If you were in my place, what would you do?

Just been wondering what to do about this for the week lol. Tellin me to my face that I’m doing a great job and then pillow talking about me 🫦. He was so surprised when I found out like we don’t all work in the same office everyday

Despite being in tier1 college with good coding skills solved more than 1400 problem on codeforces codechef decent cgpa semifinalist in 2 national level hackathon good competitive programming achievement

No intern yet

Is the market really saturated or companies are getting good people in lower colleges at lower cost

Having regret should have joined cse ece in lower iit

This is the stats more than 70 percent have not got internship

Have lost all hope now

Also afraid if this going to repeat in placement

If so people should stop preparing for jee they should focus on building skills from the school

No worth of cracking world 2nd toughest exam to remain unemploymed

It better to prepare for some government exams

No basic facilities no food no infrastructure

It shit here dealing with continuous mood swings

Sometimes I get depress then i console myself maybe future will be good

But after seeing condition of seniors i am seeing future dark

Hello, I’m an economics major. Confused on where to start looking for an internship and what title to even look for. Also is it too late to lend a winter internship? Thank you

So do tech companies really take freshers with good skills through interviews and technical rounds or is it mostly network and do company also look for dsa skills? Should I also start leetcoding or focus more on projects? Any tips

Stripe SWE intern, Bangalore India

Did anyone apply off-campus for the above role and received the Online Assessment?

(On-campus OAs are easy and really quick to receive because the slot is tied with the campus team, I want to know about off-campus OAs)

The company I work at as a swe intern had it so that interns had a hybrid schedule. However, this year they made it so that interns are in-office 5 days a week. This decision was made by hr after an intern last year took advantage of their hybrid schedule (in short they basically were not doing anything while they were remote and some other things). This decision was generally disagreed upon (current interns, obviously), however it doesn’t directly affect current employees so it’s set in stone.

I received an offer to work part time at my company while in school which is great and all, however the five day in office policy has taken a bit of a toll on me because my commute is nearly two hours.

My part time schedule has me in office all 5 days to fit with my school schedule and to spend as much time in the office as possible, but it’s just silly to have to drive all the way to work when my entire team is at home.

Aside from the actual commute, I enjoy my job and the people I work with. That said, I am contemplating WFH when my team/company is home (during company remote days it’s just the interns in the office plus a handful of others ~ medium sized company so no one would notice).

On paper, the decision is pretty obvious which is to suck it up. As I write this I honestly just got curious about the logistics and the chance of getting caught.

A few times I asked my manger to work remote during the summer and it was just by word of mouth and he would approve it without a second thought.

I can’t imagine there’s a flag specifically for interns who are working out of office via their ip address, especially since it’d be stupid for someone ti get notified that someone like me was working WFH even when I got permission. Obviously IT / security can see this information, but I doubt they care since it’s really just HR who would give af at the end of the day.

As I mentioned I probably will just suck it up, but I was curious to hear others thoughts on the feasibility of this.

I’ve been trying to keep an eye out for the tech incubator applications for both UIUC and UMD, since last year they were joined, but i haven’t found anything so far.

Anyone have any ideas on when they release or if they are going to release, i know last yr they came out around august 12th?

I'm looking for a remote intern to do during the semester. So, if you are a recruiter or someone who wants to hire or knows where I can get one, please dm or give advice.

Also, I got a google SWE intern for next summer.

Thank you

I recently interviewed for a Summer 2027 role and it went well. I was under the impression that it was only one round and then received a follow up email for another “interview” with a hiring manager/team lead. This “interview” ended up being mostly me asking about the team and their work. I followed up with HR about timeline/steps and was told “I’m fully planning on extending you an offer” but they are trying to find the right HM and team. I was then scheduled for another “interview” with a different team lead. What are the odds the verbal “offer” won’t transfer to a real one? I’m slightly on edge due to miscommunication during the process.

Hi, I got an interview at a large company for a school year internship and they asked me this:

"will you be available to work onsite, full-time (40 hours per week) for 12 weeks? If not, please share your specific availability or any restrictions."

I'm obviously not able to do that because I'm in school, which was clearly shown in my application. The job description didn't mention any hour requirement also. I really need to respond to this email but I'm scared that if I tell them I am only able to work 15-20 hours a week at most onsite they won't interview me. What are your thoughts?

What do we feel about unpaid internships?

I'm being offered one, and it's my first internship but it's 4 months long. I don't know how to feel about this. Experienced folks please drop your views

I know this is an internship subreddit but idk where else to ask. So I did two internships spring and summer the summer one being at a leader in the healthtech field. Unfortunately no return offer. I study Marketing Analytics and am looking to get into eComm, marketing or AI marketing related roles. Where can I begin to find FT roles for next year I'm using LinkedIn which is how I got my summer internship but there are no roles targeted at 2027 grads.

Guys I have currently an offer from cognizant (Genc)PAT and got a timeline of joining from dec- Jan .Till this time I m planning to enhance my skills by taking a paid internship in field of either java or Ai ...They say they will provide placement support also
Is I m going good coz I can't stay at home and just study due to monotonous environment.
Or someone can tell which skills to focus on to get higher IT job in a better company.(I am 2026 grad)

So I'm currently 19 in my 2nd year bba and i recently landed an hr internship at an hr consultancy company they also have an edtech department. I joined as an hr intern for their internal hiring department and I was super happy about it since it was going to be my first ever internship and I would probably learn something from it and gain some corporate experience, also it's like very close to my house so commuting isn't a big problem. Yesterday was my first day and they didn't give me any training they just told me to post about my internship start on linkedin and told me to connect with people on the linkedin. and today basically the work they've assigned me is cold calling 100s of potential candidates for business roles like hr internship, hr executive, sales b2b and b2c and ask them some scripted questions and schedule their interviews if they're good at communicating.That's it. Also they've told me to call from my own personal number which i thought was weird, but again idk what I'm doing. I thought that I was going to learn about company policies, payroll and serious hr shit but this has a tag of an hr intern and has a vibe of a call center. I want to know your opinions please tell me if you're suspicious in any way. Also one more thing is that they have a vacancy every single day of every single year and that too for only hr or sales. How is that possible? 😭 and I've never heard an hr getting targets. I wanted to do an internship desperately because I want to prepare for my mba and I want to gain some experience before it.

stipend- 5k per month

work days- monday to saturday, sunday is off

work time- 9:30am - 6:30pm

Also wanted to add that I've seen many bad reviews of this company's edtech. They sell their course and scam other students to sell their courses basically a pyramid scheme.

What is the highest TC you’ve heard for a new grad at a quant or AI company? Please just mention cases you’re reasonably sure about.

Incoming sophomore majoring in something media-related! I’m currently finishing up an unpaid remote summer internship, and while it’s been a good resume booster, I kinda thought I’d only have to do one unpaid internship before moving on to paid ones lol.

I applied to a few fall internships and got an offer for another unpaid remote one, around 15 hours a week from September to December (so not the full year!) The position is pretty niche and directly related to what I want to do, and I usually only see similar roles offered at bigger companies (like NBCU), so I feel like it could be useful experience for applying to those places later.

At the same time, I want to spend more time getting involved on campus and joining clubs/student media that would also be relevant to my resume.
Would you guys say a second unpaid internship is worth it for the experience/resume or should I just put all my focus on clubs/student orgs and aim for paid internships from here?