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Re:France Bashing Is So 2012 (Here Is Why) by Yoric on Friday October 11, 2013 @08:25AM (#6532626)
As a former startup CTO, I confirm that "we" (== the start-ups) love interns, for all the bad reasons.

They are dirt cheap, they often don't have enough experience to say no when they are handed the crap tasks, and if we decide to hire them, we can offer very low wages, because they often don't take the time to check out the competition. Oh, and they can be blamed for just about anything wrong that happens, too.

Sorry about this, interns, that wasn't my call.

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Re:France Bashing Is So 2012 (Here Is Why) by userulluipeste on Friday October 11, 2013 @09:30AM (#6532922)
I remember my days as intern. So true! It's a dirty game, but it is played dirty (most of the time) by both sides. The (presumably) naïve intern only stays until he wakes up, then having now the luxury of time on his side and the leverage of already being employed, just bids himself to better offers.
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