Teams fall a part very easily and get scattered all over. By the end of my internship, there was barely anyone left on my team. There a huge lack of team synergy and a mismatch in priorities. Everyone had their own personal agendas and freely disposed of each other behind their backs.
Little guidance was provided. I reached out to another full time on the team, and I listed the problems I was facing with some code. Despite making a big show during standup about helping "the intern" out, they became immediately dismissive in our private meeting since I was apparently wasting their time. They said they hadn't worked in that code base in years etc etc and told me very snidely to deal with it. I felt humiliated and gaslighted in regards to my own competency. And the worst part, it felt like I was being played by these facades.
I spoke to my manager about it, and they said that said rude software engineer had a point. I was also instantly compared to another male code monkey intern in the previous year, implying that I should live up to the same expectations and devote my existence to churning out significant business value in < 2 months. This is not an environment conducive to learning, failing, and growing. Sorry I didn't start coding out of the womb :)
By the end of it, I felt like a meaningless ticket slave clearing out the backlog and being told to work only within the bounds of the sprint. I hate the fact instead of giving the interns proper projects to work on, they forced us to integrate with the teams and do mindless bs random tickets/picking up ten different codebases. Except, if I was a male, I wouldn't have been told to "stay in my place".
Don't intern here if you're a woman in tech.
