<p>Polytech NYU, a hiring manager who was interviewed by fox news actually looked at my resume and told me they were considering me. But it was a not paid.</p>
<p>Don’t take a non-paid internship. You can do better.</p>
<p>flawed advice. take what you can get, but don’t commit sooner than you have to. it’s really about the experience and not the pay, and there are many situations where i would take an unpaid internship over a paid one.</p>
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<p>What? I’ve NEVER heard of an engineering student taking an unpaid internship. You’re correct that it’s about experience and not about pay, but it is absolutely ridiculous for a company to even suggest an engineering student work for free, and it sends a bad signal. </p>
<p>Keep looking, don’t accept it, something paid will come. I’ve seen it enough years to know.</p>
<p>I was offered an interview for an unpaid, for credit internship once. At one company that I used to work for, there was an intern who worked for free because the company didn’t have the money to hire him, but he really wanted to work there. We offered him a paid internship the following summer, but he went on to something else. Unpaid internships do exist and they are out there. Whether or not you should take one is debatable.</p>