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Good experience but hard to make it work with no pay - Intern Virtual Student Federal Service Employee Review

2.0
22 Jul 2022
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Pros

Great mentorship opportunities through video chat, etc.

Cons

You are unpaid and it’s hard to go a whole year with no pay when the time commitment can end up being more than expected

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5.0
9 Jan 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Excellent internship and way to gain experience, remote 10 hours a week

Cons

Unpaid, but gained student credit and valuable experience

2.0
8 Jul 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Looks great on the resume that you have some government experience. Can learn a bit on how the department you intern for works. Potential to network. Remote internship which means a lot of flexibility. Most people in the Bureau I was in was friendly.

Cons

Unpaid and remote. The government workers are a mix of contract and full-time employees but they are all as slow as Trump and Biden debating on TV. The entire internship lasted one year and felt like a joke. A countless bunch of useless meetings with little real assigned tasks. No opportunity to actually develop skills or work on projects and once the internship ended, they kicked us off the slack and didn't even say thank you or goodbye. After a year I still kept getting the weekly ECA meeting email links which is a very concerning security risk for them, I had to manually request them to stop sending me it.

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