First step as a software engineer - werkgeversreview Software Engineer(Internship) bij Rakuna

- Supportive, knowledgeable and friendly supervisors + colleagues - Diverse tasks to gain more experience - Flexible schedule and working pace

- Overwhelming workload sometimes - Low pay so ideal if one values the experience more - Management can get critical to converse with

- I love love love the people I worked with, they are super nice and hardworking. - Flexible hour - It was a huge learning curved, I learned a lot

Background story: I applied for the Product Designer position, got rejected but I offered to work for free as an intern. - There was no guidance whatsoever: They said I will be working with the CEO for the UX Designer job but, he is wearing too many hats and trying to do too many things at once. - They are not willing to invest: I been in the company for about a month and they want to do everything in-house to cut cost, but you need to spend money to make money. Also the current team is about half are interns. - Only want to do it his way: When I worked here I feel like I'm more like a tool rather than a person, they hired me to do what they want rather than what the user wants. - You are replaceable: They went through several designers before I, since they can always find another person to replace you. - Intern trap