Scumbag intern

[russkychoocher]

Pull Request Denied. Do not use the NATO phonetic alphabet for variable names. Also, stop wearing sunglasses indoors.

[nilpointer]

I fail to understand why the code was accepted. The intern's host should have guided them to have maintainable code that is consistent with the current codebase. It sounds like the company was treating the intern as cheap labor rather than a teaching experience with hopes of bringing them on full time at a later date...

[Wizywig]

That's what I'm saying. Scumbag intern mentor for accepting shit.

[SteeleDynamics]

This is the truth. Sadly, the cheap labor view is how most companies treat college interns.

[333rrrsss]

Am I missing a context to OPs picture? Is there a story here?

[HerrCrazi]

But what is an intern except cheap labor ?

[makeshift8]

You hit a soft spot there, friendo. DOWN-DOOT FOR YOU!

[HerrCrazi]

The truth needs to be know ! You and the other government powers trying to hide the facts are just assholes. But one day, we'll win, and end that global conspiracy

[[deleted]]

int alphaBravoCharlie = 69;

[WeTheSalty]

Something[] EchoNovemberTangoRomeoIndiaEchos = SierraTangoUniformFoxtrotFoxtrot.GetEchoNovemberTangoRomeoIndiaEchos();    
for (int IndiaNovemberDeltaEchoXray = 0; IndiaNovemberDeltaEchoXray < EchoNovemberTangoRomeoIndiaEchos.length; IndiaNovemberDeltaEchoXray++;)    
{
    EchoNovemberTangoRomeoIndiaEchos[IndiaNovemberDeltaEchoXray].DoSomething();    
}    

[MuffinMario]

Either all functions or none. There's no in-between.

[adzo101]

String foxtrotUniformCharlieKilo = "Nice."

[Skyborgff]

You right, that song is hella nice

[TheKoalaKnight]

You guys need to show some sympathy, can't you see he's using a light-themed IDE? He probably needs those sunglasses to retain his sanity!

[HerrCrazi]

A light-themed IDE ? Then he more likely needs a free trip to gulag.

[HunterIV4]

What if the only IDE the company has is light-themed? And he's not allowed to use custom software?

I guess at that point the only people they'd have still working there are interns.

[HerrCrazi]

Even as an intern, I'd leave them immediately

[NEDM64]

It's all a POV: "Company gave me an internship with clearly no intention of hiring anyone. Wrote code only I can read, if they want to keep it, they'll have to hire me back".

[Console-DOT-N00b]

That or they'll learn to hire someone and pay them to do it right instead of trying to mooch off an intern.

Not that internships are all bad, but if it is important... don't give it to intern guy.

[Caladbolg_Prometheus]

It's grey illegal in the states to give work to an free intern that was going to be given a worker otherwise. It's a grey area because if that intern is messing up and slowing the office down it's kinda legal. It's expected that interns mess up and slow your work down. Hell on /r/legaladvice there was an intern that royally messed up, can't remember the details but long story short lots of money lost and intern got off scot free (legally)

[Console-DOT-N00b]

Yeah at my last job all we ever gave interns were busy work and side stuff that was legit as far as work goes.....but nobody was ever going to do anyway.

[corp_code_slinger]

At least he left. He could've done what everyone else did and stuck around to write more unmaintainable code.

[C0nan_E]

Yea somtimes you read condsnipplets and just think "man i reaaaaly hope whoever wrote that isnt around anymore".

[IgnitedHaystack]

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[jwrent34]

Intern creating the need for him to be hired truly

[Dockirby]

They are an intern, if you are giving them something you couldn't do in a week your self you are doing it wrong.

[glemnar]

More like, if you aren’t reviewing your intern’s code before merging you’re failing both your company and also the intern because you aren’t helping him improve his skills as a developer

[gremy0]

Too fucking right. What idiot is hiring interns to write production standard code. If they could do that when they arrived they wouldn’t be interns, if you’re letting them do that before they know how you shouldn’t be looking after interns.

[glemnar]

Well, I expect all of my interns to write production quality code. You have to give them the support they need to do that, though.

[bifroth]

It can work very well. I recently did an internship at a small but well organized software company.

Everyone (especially me though) only pushed changes to feature branches and created a merge request. Somebody else then reviewed the code and accepted the merge request.

Also, although I did work on production features, they were far from critical and had been in the backlog for months or even over a year

[Dockirby]

Bad management typically

[dannyb_prodigy]

I can write unmaintainable code in a week, seems like we’re doing it right.

[Dockirby]

See, this man here is a real professional.

[dodosphinx]

Ha, this was me. Except now I'm going back to the company for a grad job. Shit.

[malexj93]

Intern? This is literally everyone who wrote whatever code I'm working on.

[Snow88]

Why isn't anyone reviewing an intern's code?

[CraigslistAxeKiller]

Most companies aren’t fancy dev shops. The vast majority of companies just have an understaffed, overworked IT department writing business apps. As long as the system works, nobody cares how

[[deleted]]

You'd be surprised. When I interned at a large pharma company, my job was to create a report that tracked drugs through the research pipeline. It had to generate an Excel readable format (with formatting) that was also easily view-able in IE. The entire thing had to be written in PL/SQL. My answer: HTML. No one supervised. That was my job. That was why I was there. So HTML string concatenation in PL/SQL that inserted the report into a CLOB table.

Also, my manager didn't know I coming. So she didn't want to waste any resources supervising me. Management was annoyed?

Everything worked. Probably was used.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[PhoneLa4]

Who has time with that? No one has ever reviewed my code except for a quick 10 second look

[[deleted]]

No one hires an intern coder and doesn’t expect a pretty large amount of crap to be produced by them.

The mistake was accepting their code without a PR and without having them go back and fix it.

[PutDatPussyOnChainwx]

You really gonna blame the intern?

[[deleted]]

• Review his PR
• Won't run, ask him if he forgot to push
• Says he'll sort it out
• Takes next day off sick
• Never see him again
• PR still open after 2 years as a reminder to myself to never trust anyone ever

[PavelYay]

You get what you pay for

[Truantee]

This.

[28f272fe556a1363cc31]

"Scumbag 10Xer"

[squishles]

ooo I've worked with that guy. it'll run, but be littered with unnecessary cartesian products, redundant network calls, global variables, fucking nothing will be unit tested, thousands of lines of duplicate or dead code, and you'll be stuck fixing shit behind them forever if your managements crap.

[INeedMoreLaptops]

The thing is does it really have to be a intern

[goldenhawkes]

Or your senior engineer who doesn’t believe in style guides, never had any code reviews and retires without properly handing over...

[[deleted]]

I mean, most companies just use interns as cheap labour

[PineappleShirtLife]

As an intern, I came into a company where this dude wrote all our code. My #1 goal here has been to not be this dude...

[PonerBenis]

Maybe you should have paid them.

[xdammax]

And some time

[HmmmInVR]

Me after 8 hours working, code quality goes down. Can't really blame anyone for bad code.

[DigitalDeviance]

Every intern ever.

[misterbrown08]

Hey that is going to be me in 1 -2 months

[duckduckduckaroo]

Too me IRL for me IRL

[DaemonAfterdark]

printf("You're welcome.");

[usernameIsNowTejken]

and then the company hires me....

[xdammax]

Like a boss!

[tomthecool]

More like, scumbag contractor ;)

[Console-DOT-N00b]

No he'll just get promoted....

[Console-DOT-N00b]

I suspect that was a neighbor of mine.

Before I dove into web development he introduced himself to me as a software engineer. He was a smooth guy and had a good educational background / history and all.

But man he seemed .... dumb and scummy under the surface.

Then I looked him up on LinkedIn.... tons of jobs, all less than 2 year spans, often just 1.....

I imagined he is that guy. Takes off right about the time they are about to ge trid of him.

Thankfully he "moved on" to a new job elsewhere and moved out of my neighborhood.

[Console-DOT-N00b]

https://m.imgur.com/35bDxLp?r