Reddit Experience · Dec 2018

Do Fall internships make it significantly harder to schedule phone screens/on-sites for the following year?

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Hi everyone, I've been lucky enough to have been offered an internship for Fall 2019 at a Big N company. Seeing as this will be my senior year, though, I'm a bit concerned that working 9-5pm every wee

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Hi everyone, I've been lucky enough to have been offered an internship for Fall 2019 at a Big N company. Seeing as this will be my senior year, though, I'm a bit concerned that working 9-5pm every weekday for this internship will make it harder for me to interview with other companies for full-time opportunities. Does anybody have any experience with this? It seems like Fall internships, while not that common, are still done pretty frequently so if anybody has experience with this I would love to hear about how you handled it. Did you take days off from work for on-site interviews? Did you sneak off for an hour to complete a phone interview? Are managers at Big N companies usually understanding that, as a Fall intern, you may need to take a day off to interview with another company? (after all, return offers aren't guaranteed..) Or do you need to make up some excuse to get off of work for the day? If I am looking to work elsewhere after I graduate, is it worth taking this Fall internship at the risk of potentially limiting my schedule/availability for interviews the next year? Or am I just being overly paranoid and should just take the damn internship? This fall internship is an opportunity I'm super excited about and really want to take, but I don't want to risk my full-time job hunting prospects. I don't know where I want to work full-time yet (Heck, I may even want to return to my Fall internship employer if I really like it) but I want to keep my options open. Even for those of you who haven't interned in the Fall before, I'd love to hear your thoughts.

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