[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.