“Have you ever been fired in less than a week from an internship? Need advice on what to do next? #internship #termination #firingsquad
Did you know my first proper internship ended in less than a week? Find out what happened and how to bounce back in this article.
Key points:
– Terminated within the first week of a supposed probationary period
– No access to codebases until 1 day before being fired
– Feeling doomed and lost after refusing other offers for this internship
Don’t let a setback define your summer! Learn how to move forward after an unexpected termination. #summerinternship #jobsearchtips #careeradvice“
What the hell did you do?
Tell us what happened. Please.
How did you bring down prod?
Everybody is saying, “What did you do?” but nah, it’s not OP’s fault. This is a bullshit company that doesn’t want interns, they want underpaid rockstars. Interns are there to learn. If you were fired in the first week, they didn’t give you a chance to learn. It’s not anything exceptional the OP did because it wasn’t just them. Another intern was also fired, and the company had warned in advance that something like that would happen by talking about a probationary period.
It sounds like they hired more interns than they wanted and planned in advance to weed out the lower performers.
Since you mentioned a probationary period, did you get caught doing something? If you didn’t even have access to the codebase I’m assuming you didn’t screw up prod or something.
Are you really gonna post this and not tell us what you djd
Why is everyone grilling OP about what they did? There isn’t much that any intern can do within 3-4 days of onboarding.
that’s weird, what happened? did you do something?
I think they just wanted to rescind an offer or something
You picked a startup. It’s very cutthroat right now and they’re trying to save money. They’re thinking “demand for internships >>> supply, so the top 5% of interns are probably par with mid-level 2 yoe devs. Let’s keep those and fire the rest instead of hiring entry level devs.”
Ask for a severance.
See if you can rustle something up – leverage your network, your parents network, LinkedIn, your professors, whatever. It doesn’t even need to strictly be a software position – you’ll learn a lot even from more generic IT internships. It’s going to be hard to find something at this point in time regardless. Probably too late to leverage your other offers/interviews unless you’re just looking for shadowing. Just make sure you have some kind of summer project, and ideally one that also will translate to having references. Academic research is easy enough to land if you’re a student and better than nothing.
Ideally this is something that you try to suss out as you go through the interview process.
Name and shame
If both interns were terminated 4 days after being “hired”, it seems that company had more problems than you will ever know.
Sometimes the stuff that happens to you is completely out of your control, you just get the short end of the stick because someone did something or something happened and a chain of events triggered both of you being kicked. Shit happens, and many times it’s not your fault. This is a lesson you’d better not learn now, but better learn it sooner than later and adapt to it.
> […] wtf do i do now.
Go back to the search, tell on future interviews what happened if they ask “I got an internship but 4 days after start the company dropped all their interns” and as last resort start working on something on your own, so at least you have a portfolio after this shit hand the fate has given to you.
name and shame
Dang while me and my company here planning to throw a summer intern kickoff party for our interns as well as finding fun and educational projects for them to work on.
> me and another intern both got terminated in 3-4 days
Out of not many, right?
This sounds like amateur hour on their part. They wanted to get a couple of cheap workers. They quickly learned the ROI isn’t there. They terminated it to save a few dollars.
did you step on the CEO’s small dog?
sounds like you were working for pieces of shit, better to move on from them imo
can you contact the other offers and ask if they’re still open?
I had a similar experience as an intern where they terminated the project due to a business change :/
Sounds shady, after 3 days no one fired anyone without good reason.
That’s some crazy bullshit. Clearly they were not interested in education and experience. They wanted someone who knew it all the moment they walked in. I do ALOT of training with new hires. We just brought on two brand new FT devs who can’t tell the front end from the backend. I’m sure they were hired cheap but I’m happy to work with them.
Don’t take it too harsh. If they fired you for not contributing in your first week, they’re a shit company to work for.
I’m a lead and between initial onboarding and setting up my environment, it takes me three days to even get started looking at a codebase and a couple months before I have contributed something meaningful.
The company realized they couldn’t afford interns; maybe their grants got denied or they just realized they needed the cash. Not your fault.
Lesson learned, you’re interviewing them as much as they’re interviewing you.
Contact the prior ones and see if they still have availability.
Lesson learned, you’re interviewing them as much as they’re interviewing you.
Contact the prior ones and see if they still have availability.
Lesson learned, you’re interviewing them as much as they’re interviewing you.
Contact the prior ones and see if they still have availability.
Not enough details.
Pragmatically: That sucks; try to find another one.
Speculatively: There is not enough information or context to determine why you were fired; I am highly suspect that you did something egregious, but I can’t prove it or disprove it given zero context.
Probs ran outta money for both of u. Anyone who thinks it’s because u weren’t good enough is watching too much anime or still in grade school
>I’d refused other offers and interviews as well for this one, wtf do i do now. I’m so doomed, and now i don’t have anything at all for the summer ffs!! fml
I think you’re totally justified in feeling this way (assuming you didn’t commit some sort of crime or something).