Applying to more internships today and found this:

Position: full stack blockchain engineer intern

Basic qualifications:
- 7+ years of experience in software development
- 2+ years experience developing smart contracts
- 5+ years professional experience in Java, Go, Node.js

Wtf is this? What intern has 5+ years of professional software development?

Why even label the posting as an intern when u want someone with years of experience?

Stupid fucking shit I swear

Depends. Some places consider uni as professional experience (not industry experience tho)which means you easily have 3 years on you fresh out of uni

@NoMad disagree, but I could be wrong.

@NoMad First of all he did say 7+ years of experience and 2nd 5+ years of PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE. So you're wrong.

That is job spam. They don't actually search for anyone. They just want to look like they are growing... It is basically a shit ad.

@thirdworld 7 yrs software development experience? 2 years in highschool and 4 years in uni, one year internship and that's your seven years for someone fresh out of uni 😛

The job is a scam, but still, doesn't mean people lack "experience" when they haven't counted how many years they've actually been developing.

@craig939393 you could disagree, and it'd be fair. I didn't write the ad, but I also don't think you should easily discard someone's degree and previous experiences in favor of "just how many years". I mean, I disagree with the whole year-based judgement of people's knowledge anyways.

@Oktokolo this is the statement I most agree with

They label it as intern because they want free labor. 🤷‍♂️

@Oktokolo is this a thing?

@Oktokolo maybe, but this is not the first time I see something like this. I know some startups that try to establish most of their workforce through internships. @kwilliams is right, they're for free labor https://m.youtube.com/watch/...

@dmonkey
Of course. Job offers are cheaper than buying real ads most of the time.

Very normal. In my country intern needs to build a complete sold software , only they consider hiring you.

For example if you ought to apply for the position of Mobile Application Development, they will request you to build an app from scratch with complex functionality based on what they will request of you within one week.

Based on my experience, in my country, I was requested to do an app for interview which have the functionality of BLE and BCI , which means I have to build an Arduino projects as well (for EEG SIGNAL) and Android app for plotting graph from the raw data in 2 channels.

Guess what , ended up I am not getting the job. Because I'm not the one they looking for....

The worst is the Arduino hardware and source code for both Arduino and Android is that company's copyright.

Company these days....