MissYeh

I started my internship as web developer with internship-uk. I knew after week 1 that this is not the type of internship I am looking for. Left internship-uk after 4 weeks, March 8th to be exact.

So, I left internship-uk! I think I owe any potential future internship-UK/studios92 intern student something. Something that you don’t get from their websites or other of the many resources on the internet. Not only do I feel I owe them something, also to every person who might be dealing with one of their services one day.

Who should read this article about studios92 and internship-uk?

• Read it if you are interested in becoming an intern with studios92, internship-uk, gift-tours,
  • because you are about to spend a lot of money. I just want to make sure you get what you expect!
  • if you are ambitious and want to get a glimpse of a professional environment (in this case, they are not what you are looking for, their information is very deceiving)
  • especially if you want to be an IT Web development intern (because that was what I am)
  • If you joined internship-international.com. Their userbase is mainly all accounts created by the interns. Every article talking about their internship experience is written by their own interns because they were had to
• If you are a teacher of an University of applied science or University and need to know about the quality on this internship to see if this is what you want your students to be in.
• If you want to know about the quality of their hotel reviews related to website of studios92, for example worldwidetraveltips.com with their own fake users and own written reviews

This article is about my experience within internship-uk and studios92. I will highlight both the positive and negative ones. You don’t have to either agree or disagree with me. It is written from my perspective, from my Code of Conduct. I never mentioned it before in my blog because wanted to give the company the benefit of the doubt.

Warning: It is a long post and only a part of what I want to say is covered.

Boss threatens to fire interns because of my post

I had to take down this post for a while because the boss read about it and threatened to fire a few interns I had contact with. Now they have finished their internship I put this post back online and split into different posts:

- Review: My experience with internship at Studios92 (Internship-UK)
- Review: Looking back to Studios92 and internship-UK.com
- Review: Studios92 & Internship-UK Webdevelopment internship | thumbs down

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How I experience my first weeks of internship with Internship-UK, studios 92, gift-tours in New Romney?

After my 5th day here it already felt as if I am here for months! Now, is that a good or a bad thing? Oh yes, why do I list 3 company names? Pick whichever you like it is all the same company. They all offer the same internship programmes.

Ok, so I am ready to do some OOP with PHP and ASP..and unit testing and applying SEO and working in teams ..have meetings..learn from others, share my experiences and put that into practise…and lots ..lots..lots of coffee.

But..the internship programme they have is not worth money paying for!
They’ll use you and you can not go anywhere if you paid them. They don’t refund!
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Yes, only 2 days and 3 nights before my plane takes of from Amsterdam Schiphol to London Heathrow. How exciting is that? Well, for me it is! I depart at 15:00 and arrive at 15:15. How cool is that? ..an web development internship with studios92 which is also internship-uk, an accommodation booking site. Their website looks promising with many internship programmes.

In my previous post I stated that I’ll be staying 6 months as an intern with Studios92. In the meantime I managed to turn that into 1 full year. The division I’ll be an intern is not located in London *sad* but in New Romney (~1.5 hours away from London).

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As a NHL CMD student one will always encounter the semester where one has to experience what it is like in the big big business world. It is almost time for my 90 days industrial placement.

I am still slightly confused about which term to use: ‘industrial placement’ or ‘internship’. According to my placement coach the first is correct. But I get the feeling that the second one is becoming more standard nowadays. I’ll use ‘internship’ ..I am lazy.. oh well, I can be…..

..anyway..

Internship abroad

I can’t exactly remember WHY I chose to find a company abroad for my internship as I have many reasons to do so. I recall a convo with my previous mentor about study opportunities in Vilnius and how cool (and cold) it is to be there. He painted me a picture so clear, that I definitely wish to visit it one day either to study or just to experience being there for a while. After this the ball started to roll and one of my lovely colleagues recommended me a web development company in Edinburgh. My first contact moments (email) with the owner of that company was quite oke. After a while it was harder to get in touch with him as he was quite busy. No problem.. I just look for other ways..

So… search and you will find!

I found internship-uk.com, immediately applied on Nov 2nd 2008 and got accepted Nov 6th 2009. I must say, they respond fast! Their speed is overwhelming! I wish every company has this speed of replying..

Today I created a new blog Category: MY internship @ Studios92. This category will contain posts related to my internship, or industrial placement, in New Romney with Studios92.com / Studios92.co.uk

Well, it is all fine… I’ve been accepted..I need to deposit money for my accommodation (poor me). It feels all good..

It feels too good to be true!

People all over the internet (and world) warn each other. Bells must ring when things feel too good to be true and when it seems all things happen way too easy. Yes, my bells (ding..dong) began to ring (ring..ring) about a week after I got accepted. Can you blame me? I am about to send 3000 GBP to them… what if I arrive in New Romney searching for my internship dream company and start to realise that there is none. I would hate myself for that…

I started searching for proof. Proof like, students who did internship there as well, who kept a blog and shared their experiences. Funny enough (or not funny actually) I could not find any… well, yes.. I found one where a guy (I think it is a guy) called the boss of internship-uk a jerk (I shall not let his statement influence me)….but I found nothing more!

Either the company doesn’t let it’s interns write publicly about it.. OR the interns there are just not the kind of people who share their experiences publicly. Perhaps mostly our school teachers stimulates this with their students.
UPDATE: they let their interns write blogs about the company. correction: it is implicitly forced to write positive articles on blogs about the company, you have no choice. In my opinion, blogs suppose to be personal and come from within. if it is not, then it should be professional. Not because the company says you have to write at least 300 words about the internship using at least certain words and more requirements and be all positive. And then they tell you the next topic you have to write about, for example movies etc. Otherwise it seems like the blogs are forced. This totally is against my grain. What I have learned from this company is to be suspicious of every blog article about experiences with a company or service and reviews you read on the internet. Especially the positive ones!
Tip if you are interested in doing an internship:

Anyway.. like I mentioned earlier… search and you will find!

After a few more search attempts I found someone who has listed her UK internship at Studios92 in her LinkedIn page. I contacted her and she was nice enough to respond to me about her internship there. She had a wonderful time and even showed me a few photo’s. ..she managed to make me want to go to New Romney even more now.. :

Now…. I go and find me some money to pay for my internship there..

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