I don't know where to begin.
I was working in the Operations team, and pretty much from the very first day set the tone for the whole internship. My direct manager the COO was a highly temperamental person, impatient and irritable. Even a slight error would cause annoyance, and would ultimately lead to him shouting at some intern sometimes needlessly. Sometimes it was none of the interns fault - but he was always trying to pin the blame on someone. He's never wrong, and neither is there any accountability for him if he does make a mistake.
Instead, all his stress falls us, we bear the brunt.
When I was working there we hardly were not getting paid anything at all. Yet, we as interns were expected to operate the whole business without any support from the rest of the management team (which just showed how much they valued and cared about us ) - just a COO who never showed us appreciation at all. Only blame and anger. We were made to feel that our value was equated to what our remuneration was - almost nothing.
So we were underpaid, overworked, and over-stressed - does that sound like an employee who will give his/her very best for an organization?
Well CaterSpot claiming to be a "start-up" seems to think so. A start-up with a top-down hierarchy, where the interns are expected to do all the dirty work.
These sentiments were not just shared by a single intern. But many interns who were actually very bright, smart and capable and whom CaterSpot would have benefitted from full time employment, left earlier than anticipated because of the above reasons. So please think twice before interning at CaterSpot. You are better than that.
