I don’t do shit in my internship

I’m literally on my phone and taking naps throughout the day while getting paid a ridiculous amount. Anyone else in the same boat?

Im not complaining im just curious to see who else is in the same situation lmfao

 

I’d talk to analysts. Some firms are limiting work for interns because they fear leaking non public information so in general I think summer staffers are playing it safe.

Analysts will definitely have some work for you to do, most likely non of it sexy or fun, but if you want something to do I’d go to where the work actually piles up

 

What are you going to do when you have an interview and they ask about your internship experience?

 

The situation is very different for consulting vs banking. 1. Most banks will over hire interns compared to their full time needs by 30 percent and then take the best 70 percent for full time. But, with the poor economy that number will probably be closer to 50 percent. How does it make sense to give guaranteed offers to 50 percent of the class that would be redundant? Comparatively consulting firms under hire by a good amount so that the majority of their class comes in through full time recruiting (the banks that do full time hiring do very little). Consulting firms would just decrease full time slots accordingly without need for redundant employees.

 

there's prop firm internships? Interesting, in the US right?

 
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Can't say I'm surprised. Delegating work to interns is difficult to begin with - they're mostly a negative value-add. You can really only trust them with the menial tasks that you don't have time for, and it takes until mid-summer for them to really get the hang of it / stop making mistakes.

Now internships are shortened and 100% virtual. It's almost impossible to build rapport, start trusting their work, "swing by" to discuss a project or have any idea what they're working on.

I'd recommend that whenever you're given a task just crush it - do it quickly, make no mistakes, and ask how you can help next. Better yet - start to think about what the next steps would be, and offer to help with those. It's easier for people to say "yes, do that" than it is to think of ways you can help and schedule a zoom meeting to explain them to you

 

Lol I fucking wish. I’m doing back breaking work researching public and private companies in my sector and building presentations. I’m damn near seeing the cap iq home screen when I close my eyes....annddd I’ve yet to see my first check hit my account lmao

 

At an investment firm and my internship is fucking dead. I rode it out for first couple weeks but I’m bored shitless right now. I asked them if there was anything going on that I could do substantial work on and they pretty much told me deal flow is fucked. I just speed through the bs assignments and hop back on the PS4. It’s nice to get paid for what I’ve been doing since I got my 2021 offer, but I’m tired of this virus shit. Someone make a fucking vaccine!

 

Damn bro that sucks. Can't you set up alerts or something? Or just get some HF intern to run warzone duos with you.

 

I'm lucky that I get to go into my office, but still not a ton to do. Mostly just administrative work and a bit of modeling. Gets pretty boring during the day and I just go on my phone or browse WSO and whatnot.

 

Seems like virtual internships are extremely hit or miss. Some days I literally do nothing, other days, like today, I'm jammed. Granted I'm doing a directly finance-related internship, but I'm getting paid a decent amount to work for a Fortune 100 company and I'm very grateful for the experience.

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Will be very interesting to see how they decide who gets a return offer

 

im a full time associate at a BB and I feel the same way hahaha

still have some deals to work on - clients are all just super chill right now ("no need to rush this analysis")

Saving like 90% of my pay right now.

 

the worst is when an intern fucks up a simple task then asks quote "can i get some more intellectual work". god no, especially when you cant meet deadlines for mindless deliverables

i have interns that attend top ivy league schools and i went to a non-target. now i feel like i was a damn genius when i was an intern

What concert costs 45 cents? 50 Cent feat. Nickelback.
 

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