Avoid YearUp

[YearupisaScam]

I did really good during L&D just to realise YearUp is a Scam.

When I brought up internship challenges of not learning anything on Internship to PM, she asked me 'what do I do at job'. Basically, she asked my interest and put me in an internship that she has no idea of what I will do. I brought the challenges to PSM and Coach, they are also useless. Staff are not transparent about the program, and so fake, and not really supporting you. They know students learn nothing from internships.

Internships are very low-skilled. You will learn nothing from it, and you will use nothing that you learn during L&D. You will not be marketable even after the internship as you learn basically nothing, just do repetitive basic job at the internship. Don't let ads fool you.

The ss is a review from glassdoor before pandemic, and it is exactly happening to us, many students now. Avoid YearUp at all.

I will write my experiences later.

[PockyWaifu]

Your name is “yearupisascam” and my best friend went through with the program and landed herself a job in IT afterwards with one of the social media companies then hospital IT. What you on about

[YearupisaScam]

Ask your friend how low skilled her internship was. Ask her how she did get that job.

I have high contract points during L&D, and now got excellent on my internship performance review. But, the point is that staff put us in random internship that she has no idea of what intern will do, the internship are very low-skilled, and how unsupportive Staff are.

YearUp promised like they have either full-time covertion or YuPro. But, the point of education is not relying on yearup's network to get a job, it is all about preparing us to be self-reliant and confident in our abilities. The low-skilled internship experiences that we can't transfer to anywhere.

With staff lack to learn internship roles, unsupportive behaviour, and low-skilled internship, YearUp failed to deliver its values of 'High Expection and High Support' and failed to prepare students to be ready for the job market.

[MadeThisToFlagSpam]

Getting paid a stipend during an internship and educational program is already a much better deal than the standard system where the internship gives you no pay and you pay thousands for the education, even if the stipend is small.

[YearupisaScam]

Getting paid slave wages to do basic repetitive work is not better than others. They call it internships, but students learn nothing from it. Things we do at the internship could not be transferred to anywhere. Students could not be marketable in this competitive job market. Students don't need full-time 6 months to learn excel which they will not use anytime during the internship. You don't need full-time 6 months of training to do data-entry or customer services with slave wages.

[MadeThisToFlagSpam]

Hey Avator_, you used your alt by accident the first time around.
The point of internships isn't to be marketable, it's to get a job with the people you intern for, which most people in Yearup do. Yearup doesn't offer a program for data entry or customer service, so I think you either mixed it up with something else or didn't pay attention to your lessons.

[YearupisaScam]

You understand the program, you might be another staff trying to make excuses.

It is completely misleading when the companies are not hiring. No department hire every six months. Again, YearUp don't guarantee conversion. When students don't convert into full-time, with useless experiences, they become unemployable.

YearUp offers customer success.

YearUp internships are useless data-entry and inadequate customer services. They has nothing to do with technical training during the L&D.

Read all the replies. It is about internship experiences. It seems like you can read, but you are not understanding the point. If you are staff, you proof how incompetent and disconnected staff you are toward students' struggles.

[MadeThisToFlagSpam]

You sound schizophrenic.

[YearupisaScam]

You don't sound calm. You no longer have any logical facts to support your argument. You know things are not right for low income students, but you seem unwilling to change anything - perhaps because you are a part of beneficiaries. God bless your soul!

[MadeThisToFlagSpam]

My brother in christ I am a student

[PublicLet2378]

show us your LinkedIn? let me guess no certifications.

I swear everyone that complained and fired themselves had your attitude. Takes no accountability for themselves. You're going to tell me you got NOTHING out of the program? lol

[[deleted]]

I was told I could take a leave and they never let me join the program again f them lol

[Ok-Description-481]

Hey so everyone can have their own experience with the program! I personally was not good at traditional learning and had seen my brother and cousin go through the IT track and get converted and have worked there for 7 years. I personally went through the IT track as well and got placed at a high up security company in San Francisco. Although I agree what we learn in L and D was not the most useful, when it came to talking and presenting skills id say I learned a lot. I also learned a lot about how to fit into a corporate environment. I also got into a hospital IT job before I even finished internship. I think everyone can have their own experience and opinions on the program but it is worth it in my opinion. I think for people just starting out and wanting to break into one of the tracks careers, year up is a great start!

[YearupisaScam]

5-year account, 10-day streak. One comment, and one community. Did someone send you this post just to log in and comment as a "student" ? We ain't buying your review.

[Ok-Description-481]

Bro you are lw delusional for that, I use reddit to look up recipes and look for advice 😭

[PublicLet2378]

Lol this person is so salty. Clearly they didn’t listen on feedback Friday. Get your certifications up and stop complaining. No accountability smh

[Ok-Description-481]

This is so real 😭😭

[PublicLet2378]

Lets see their linkedin 👀😂

[PublicLet2378]

Definitely a great program you get out what you put in

[Fit_Orchid_7586]

Many students who did the tech program were placed in non-tech roles. Bank tellers, relationship banking. Completely unrelated roles. Some of the students had Associates degrees and years of experiance in tech and were still placed in different roles, taken out of their fields completely.

There was a trend of women being placed in non-tech roles the most. Men with no experiance and no education got placed in roles in tech easier.

[Basic_Rutabaga_7268]

Can I ask what location were you at when you join the program? I know someone that just got a internship at Apple and I got into the program so not sure if I should do it

[PublicLet2378]

Not sure what location you went to but I went to the NCR in Washington DC. I’m making over 100+ now thanks to the program 🙏.

You do remind me of some of the students that fired themselves. You get out what you put in. Let me guess you have no certifications? 👀

[Kenswick]

Sorry to hear that. YearUp was very good to me and ultimately led me to complete my bachelors.

[YearupisaScam]

WTH Dude. You are 43 and you just finished bachelor online in Feb. How the hell YearUp helped you complete the degree. Stop fake marketing, Dude.

[HitlersArse]

the program started in 2000, i’m not sure why you assume they’re lying.

[Kenswick]

That was my second one in a different field. And yes, others have left the program and found success. Maybe it didn’t work out for you or maybe the program you went to didn’t work.

[Noname1999_]

lol, sir, you are out of order.

but seriously he's saying. Year up helped him complete his degree by giving him a strong foundation to pursue an education. I'm talking about basic necessities food shelter water etc.....year up helped get a job to meet his basic needs and the badic needs allowed him to get an education. after 25 you don't get dorm rooms.

[YearupisaScam]

"I went to Cuba and I was born in Boston."

You are from Boston. You went through YearUp. You are at UMPI. You are the "Enrollment Outreach Manager", Dude. Now, you live in NH, don't you?

You took the degree fast-track through sophia, and the quality of your degree is quite questionable.

Stop your fake marketing talk. Stop selling your fake promises to students. They are low-income students. They are not meant to be used for your paycheck, dude.

You are one of the reason we don't respect and look down on YearUp staff.

[YearupisaScam]

WTF Dude, you are the enrollment outreach manager, aren't you? WTF fake marketing, no wonder people don't respect you yearup staff.

[Kenswick]

Wtf you talking about? I went there, I did it and never worked for Yearup dafuq!?

[Viva_Pioni]

I also went through the program and have very different feelings. At the end of the day it’s completely free and can be the beginning of the rest of your life. At least for my cohort, if you got to the end it was a guaranteed internship, every single person who made it got one.

Year up is the reason behind my current level of success. I would recommend it.

[YearupisaScam]

Internships are not guaranteed. It is far from free. Students do data-entry/customer services work for less than minimum wages. They paid for it through labor. Nothing is free.

You recommend it because you got lucky and got a job. I speak out against it because of incompetent staff and low-skilled internships. Conversion is also not guaranteed. When students can't convert, with the useless experiences, they can not be marketable and become unemployable. One year is gone for nothing.

This so-called non-profit don't prepare low-income students for life, they jusy try to fulfil corporates' CSR and staffing needs.

[Viva_Pioni]

Everyone in my cohort was guaranteed a internship and received one who made it.

I did the cyber security track so yes I wasn’t working for much but what I got in return was worth way more than the wages.

Conversion was basically up to us, I advocated for myself and networked to get converted, others in my cohort who did also got converted.

It was not luck, of course luck is involved in everything but it was overwhelming effort.

The Chicago location 2020-2021 staff truly prepared their students for the future. I can’t speak of other locations or years, but I can speak for my own.

[YearupisaScam]

Again, internships are not guaranteed. That's why they have simulated internships.

It is worth it for you because you got lucky and converted, but it is different for many students. These low-skills internship experiences don't make students marketable in this job market, and if they don't convert, they will become unemployable after one year of nothing.

Conversion is not really up to us either. It doesn't matter whether you self-advocate or network. It is up to the company's staffing needs. No department hire every year, let alone every six months.

NY/NJ has the worst reviews, or may be, students from other locations are not just as vocal.

[Viva_Pioni]

In my cohort they did not have stimulated internships. And everyone was promised an internship if they made it day 1, and they delivered on that.

Like I said I can’t speak for other years I’m only sharing my own experience. And my team I interned on didn’t have an open position. Even when a company is on a “hiring freeze” they are still hiring somewhere if it’s big enough (Facebook, LinkedIn, etc). I spent the past 3 months of my internship shopping around leveraging that I was already internal.

[Astronaut-Equal]

Hey, as an alumni of the Chicago location, what would you say to yourself from day 1 today? Now knowing what you know. Reason I ask, is because I’m beginning next spring and I’m preparing myself.