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Oh believe me... Coming from the US, the summer between my first and second year, I was compensated 5k for three months of work. When I first heard what was sta
by teddythetwig 9y ago
Oh believe me... Coming from the US, the summer between my first and second year, I was compensated 5k for three months of work. When I first heard what was standard in NL I was shocked. Then again, I was also paying 50k per semester for school, soooo yeah, take your pick haha. I wouldn't say slavery, more like indentured servitude. Anyways, I make it my personal goal to give our interns as much of mine and our senior devs' time as possible, as well as support after their internship is over.
- musage 9y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indentured_servitude#Legal_status https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indentured_servitude#Legal_sta... also: > Until the late 18th century, indentured servitude was very common in British North America. It was often a way for poor Europeans to immigrate to the American colonies: they signed an indenture in return for a costly passage. After their indenture expired, the immigrants were free to work for themselves or another employer. Internships would be more akin to working for those companies in Europe, with the prospect of maybe getting a costly passage to greener pastures so to speak, and maybe not.
- megaman22 9y agoI would hope you'd make more than $5k working in software for a summer. I was making that a decade ago wearing a hard hat and pushing a broom in a power plant on my summer breaks...