Tech’s coveted internships are getting canceled due to Covid-19

Hey, this happened to me today at 9:30AM. I’d lined up an absolutely dreamy UX Research internship with an incredible Chicago company — smart coworkers, awesome office, rigorous interview process, the whole 9 yards. Then my phone rang and everything evaporated due to forces beyond my control. I spent an hour sitting on the floor wanting to throw my laptop through the window before I counted the ways I’m lucky and made pancakes. Today has been terrible but I’ll be ok. I did it once, I can do it again :)

basically this same story was posted last week and i commented on that one as well.<p>i have a summer internship with FB and i reached out to both my recruiter and team lead. both said that it&#x27;s still on but possibly WFH. from what i&#x27;ve heard Google isn&#x27;t cancelling software internships (the cited cancellation is for UX design) and doing online onboarding and WFH <i>at the discretion of the managers</i>.<p>if you&#x27;re in the same boat you should probably email your recruiter and your matched team lead.

As a counterpoint, Bloomberg (a medium-sized tech company) is still hiring interns as well as FTEs. We are all WFH but the positions, hiring, internships are proceeding as usual.<p>Disclaimer: I am a team lead at Bloomberg.

I got an email from my recruiter at a medium-sized VC-funded startup in Mountain View basically saying “if things don’t change by June we won’t be able to continue move forward with your internship”. I appreciated the transparency and that’s about as good of an an answer as I could’ve expected given the sheer uncertainty of everything going on right now.

Shame on any company too stuck in 1950 not to embrace WFH in this time for work not abdolutely requiring physical presence.

I got email yesterday from a midsize company, they cancelled my internship too.

Didn’t Yelp also rescind full time offers ?

Remember, this is an emergency on an epic scale. Hopefully it will pass any things will return to normal (or something like it).