Interns From Ivy Leagues Or Private Schools Are Unwanted

[steve-howard]

> To be fair, there are bad apples in every college and it’s likely that expectations from Tier 1 schools are higher. But, below are a few stories that you can judge yourself.

This is a terrible article and the above line confirms that it's essentially collecting some bad anecdotes to paint a broader picture of "tier-1" interns.

[canistr]

I agree, particularly with the anecdote of the intern countering for a $15/hour wage. NYC is by no means a cheap city and even I was making $15/hour as an intern many, many years ago. $10/hour is rather insulting and barely makes a dent in the living costs of a student yet alone their tuition costs.

[mathattack]

I think part of the issue is the screening and mentoring. If you just screen for the school, of course you won't get a good intern. If you accept falling asleep once, of course it will become a pattern.

My experience with people with difficult majors from top schools is they are workaholics if you pay them good money and give them real projects. If you hire a lacrosse playing English major from an ivy league, and pay substandard wages, don't expect to get the cream of the crop.

[gohrt]

"Interns who want to get paid > $10/hr to do professional-quality work are unwanted."

Is there a browser plugin that erases Forbes and Medium links from HN?

[nextstep]

Can we stop posting stuff from Forbes' blogging platform? This kind of content is rarely well-researched (or interesting).

[TrainedMonkey]

All the smart/hardworking interns from tier 1 schools end up in tier 1 companies. So chance of getting a bad apple for an average company is so much higher.

[ethanazir]

There is this issue: if you go to school to learn- you pay the school big bucks; if you go to a company and still need to learn a lot before you are worth anything; and there is little expectation of you staying with the company long enough to be worth anything... its why the military requires 4 year commitments before they pay for your training.

[habosa]

Yeah! All Ivy League kids demand to be paid too much and then just fall asleep at their desks and lie about deaths in the family!

Disclaimer: I go to UPenn, but that doesn't make this article less of a pile of bullshit.