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No stipend. You will get a Milton bottle at the end of your internship. How thoughtful : )
Won't let interns use lift. Interns have to literally go down and up 4 floors... multiple times a day.
Even if you are finished with your work...they won't let you budge before 7 pm.
Will give coffee only twice a day. There are specific timings for interns when they can get themselves a cup of coffee...and they keep the coffee machine switched off for the rest of the time..so that you can't access it by accident. They use CCD coffee machines where the Associates sit...for interns there is a local coffee machine they use.
After drinking that coffee you might want to ▮▮▮
They give out dozens of assessment internships per year. And only to those students who have already interned with them before. So, they will also make you work 7 days a week and pull all-nighters for months. That too, unpaid. But they never really offer PPOs (max one per year). Thus, a hardworking student will end up wasting months of his time.
3 months non-assessment internship.
He was good enough to get a 3 month call back assessment internship.
1 junior partner and 2 senior associates liked him enough to want him to join but the corporate/M&A managing partner blocked it and asked him to do another 3 months (unpaid again) of assessment and then they would decide.
He did not go back.
Lots of stories like this one.
ideally, avoid this place, some of the associates are so toxic would have asked you to work late nights regularly and even on weekends!
Man, get some life, live, and let your interns live their lives peacefully after office.
Ideally, you will learn a lot of core tech law works, but would make you work so much that you will burn out
Realistically 5 assessment interns maybe= 1 associate. Except they are not billed out.
18 lakh = 5 assessment interns milked to the max = 45-50
Now tell me whether this is cost cutting measure or not? ☠️
There is nothing wrong in taking a job that pays less, if nothing else, to get to make mistakes and still have some control over your future. Markets have generally been bad for freshers in the last 3-5 years (unlike 10-15 years ago), and so there are fewer opportunities for employment without post-qualification experience.
Your second paragraph didn't make sense. If they are not inclined to hire the firm shouldn't offer an assessment. No scope to "pester their way into the position" lol.
We ASSESSED you, and found:
1. you're ass. We won't hire.
2. you're not ass. Hired.
An intership is not an assurance of a job. Don't be entitled.
People beg for assessment internships, where even if firms are not inclined to hire them, and pester their way into this position; and then, if they're not truly brilliant (which is the the only way you would get in) and are not made an offer, sully the good names of the firms that are nice enough to grant atleast a modicum of insight on the skills and lawyering required to work at the firms.
Pov of students- if any such assurance is given, the student may not line up any internships, may decline offers/ assesment, may have to cancel up on internships, etc. This negatively impacts the career of a student and many students do feel depressed after spending 5yrs or 3yrs (3+3=6 years) into a profession where they don't land a job.
Another one would be bharucha & Partners. After promising assessment internship based on performance the hr never contacted them for one.
If we publicly shame them maybe the HRs will stop restorating to this practice. Heart wrenching to be left jobless after investing so much time and efforts.
I'll start:
Lakshmikumaran & Sridhan