Backing out after formal acceptance of offer?
I currently have an offer for an internship this summer at the same company that I worked at last summer. I only have a week left accept it. lets call it "Internship A"
I don't want to work there because there is no high probability of full time, but after being rejected from 2 final rounds already, I want this as a back up since it still is a pretty decent internship.
I am still applying for other jobs and lets say hypothetically I do get an offer at a firm I'd rather work at. Lets call it "Internship B"
My question is:
If I back out of Internship A after accepting the offer what will happen? Blacklisted?
What if "Internship B" calls my former boss for a reference? My former boss will know that I have backed out. Will I end up losing both jobs?
Do internships even call references? You can always back out, I highly doubt for a internship, that "internship B" would take yours away. Be sure though in your decision because you don't want to burn a bridge and potential FT offer and then get nothing from "Internship B". Granted, I bet you could probably still go to another group/team at "Internship A" for fulltime in the future despite backing out. Its only an internship
Thanks for the response.
Internship A called my previous jobs for references but I don't know if Internship B will. I'll ask some friends and try to find out.
Internship A is a HUGE HUGE company so yeah I'm sure it won't matter down the road.
Internship B has a 95% chance of getting full-time and I have some connections at that company too. With Internship A i'll have to reinterview and of those people not that many people get the full time offer.
take the offer at A. Wait to see if you get B; if you do, back out of A.
It's your life man, so do what you need to do.
I've backed out of an internship offer this year. They were fine with it (large bank). They aren't keeping track and it's still pretty early in the cycle.
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