[liberationtech] Internships available at leading Palo Alto tech startup

[Jillian C. York]

Unpaid internships are not universally illegal, and how does it help anyone
to spread untruths like that?

I'm not saying I'm in favor of them (I'm not), but a quick Google search
shows you're wrong in most US states.

On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 9:52 AM, Greg Norcie <greg at norcie.com> wrote:

> Unpaid internships are illegal actually. Unless receiving course credit
> from a university  - then they're just morally unsound :)
>
> --
> Greg Norcie (greg at norcie.com)
> GPG key: 0x1B873635
>
> On 2/22/13 10:16 AM, Q. Parker wrote:
> > A list enumerating some items which make this post objectionable:
> >
> > 1) Unpaid internships are wrong on a number of levels.
> >
> > 2) This is data-mining/graph analysis for spam.
> >
> > 3) "Quirky" should be a qualification for employment only for clinical
> trials.
> >
> > 4) The only thing this work will liberate is the will to live from
> fresh-faced recent grads.
> >
> > All in all, I'd rather bag groceries than work for a company that posts
> an ad like this
> > (and here, no less).
> >
> > Quirkily,
> > Q.
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 06:43:38PM -0800, Hamdan Azhar wrote:
> >> Please forward widely!
> >>
> >> ---
> >> INTERNSHIPS AVAILABLE AT LEADING SILICON VALLEY STARTUP
> >>
> >> GraphScience - a Palo Alto based venture-backed startup focusing on
> >> predictive behavioral analytics in social networks - is offering
> >> internships for college students and recent graduates. Interns will
> play a
> >> valuable role in building the leading social advertising platform on
> >> Facebook.
> >>
> >> Our clients are major Fortune 500 retailers and we're looking for
> quirky,
> >> creative, self-motivated individuals who would thrive in a fast-paced
> >> environment. Internships are unpaid and last for at least 3 months.
> >>
> >> Interested? Email us your resume, your favorite ice cream flavor, and
> the
> >> name of the last book you read.
> >>
> >> CONTACT: Hamdan Azhar, Lead Data Scientist, hamdan at graphscience.com
> >
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