[rr808]

I'm back in the office 4-5 days a week. We had an intern this Summer as well, and we spent lots of time one on one, spent time in the team together, went out for lunch & drinks. Compare this to the guy last year who was at home and basically was too easy to ignore. In office intern learned 100x as much as the guy last year, he's just lucky to be at a company where everyone is back in the office.

[sylens]

Training up new/junior staff is the one area where I do think having some in-person collaboration is immensely valuable. But you can do this in bursts with certain team members and not have to require everyone to be in-person.

[belorn]

The primary goal of internship (except when its a legal requirement for certification) is to built relationship and networking. You are trading work in exchange for access to professionals in the industry, with the hope of using that in the future. In that context it is obviously a worse trade if all the interaction is done on the phone or through a webcam.

It is a very different situation for people who trade work hours in exchange of getting paid.

[rr808]

> It is a very different situation for people who trade work hours in exchange of getting paid.

Yes but if you work for a firm that wants to have interns/grads it relies on the "people who trade work [for pay]" to help do the training.

[ghaff]

Internships at tech companies are generally paid--as they should be. Although I agree that a remote internship is probably not as good an experience as in-person would be.

[brandmeyer]

Its not just interns. In a world where one job only lasts 2-4 years, we're all constantly onboarding and cross-training.

[throwawaysleep]

Do you care if you are all that effective in those 2-4 years? Everywhere is a temporary stop, so I really only care about learning tech skills. Get the biz domain wrong? Who cares.

[chii]

remote teaching doesn't work for students, so it stands to reason that it also doesn't work for teaching someone starting a job.

But this doesn't imply that remote WFH doesn't work for regular employees.