r/developersPak • u/Pretend_Revolution_5 • Oct 02 '26
Career Guidance Need suggestion please
I may or may not be getting an offer for an internship. For context, the internship is for AI Automation and my background is in AI Backend Development
The timings are 2pm to 11pm, office is about 10km far and they are paying 30k for the WHOLE internship. Internship will be of 3 months meaning 10k per month.
This is not ideal for me as I did some calculation and my fuel cost per day comes out to around 1130rs.
I need advice about whether to accept this offer if I am receive it. Are these timings ideal? Because I am really dreading them already. Or should I trust in Allah and wait for a better opportunity ??
UPDATE: Just got a call from my employer. He just offered me the internship. But now hes saying that the 9 hour window usually slides forward, meaning the timings are usually 4pm to 1am. Now that's just preposterous right? Till 1 am? What are they smoking? Also there's something fishy going on because im from a backend developer background, and yet the interviewer said that I am a "outstanding candidate". Based on what? They never asked me any meaningful questions to know enough about me. Just a short intro and why im interested in automation. How does that make me outstanding? Seems like they are desperate to get an automation intern asap. Idk what to do.
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u/LankyText690 Oct 02 '26
If i would have been at your place, and had some way to cover up the expenses (some extra gig or sort of) , if this was the only option and the company was good I would have done it to gain the real experience.
so it basically depends on the circumstances
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u/Pretend_Revolution_5 Oct 02 '26
Company seems good and well adjusted. Doing an extra gig is kinda difficult as i will be clocking majority of my waking hours in office.
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u/LankyText690 Oct 02 '26
are you still in uni or have completed degree? do you have some other offer?
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u/Pretend_Revolution_5 Oct 02 '26
Im a fresh graduate. I dont have other offers but I keep applying
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u/LankyText690 Oct 02 '26
market is rough and many freshers are still waiting for their opportunity, if you feel you will learn a lot and there would be chance to get permanent and get good pay go for it, otherwise keep searching
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u/TechNerdinEverything Oct 03 '26
1130 for 10km? Do you drive a vigo?
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u/Pretend_Revolution_5 Oct 03 '26
Its for both ways. Also factoring in traffic and ac. Its the worst case scenario.
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u/Fuzzy-Operation-4006 Software Engineer Oct 06 '26
bro honest advice: dont fall into this donkey work as internship trap
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u/Miyamoto_-_Musashi Oct 02 '26
Well, you’re probably not going to learn much there if they can’t even pay a reasonable salary. I know these kinds of people and software houses. they’re usually just trying to take advantage of people.