I liked working with great and inspiring students who motivate me to be better. Other than that, the whole experience was so bad because of the employer
What I wish was different
I wish I hadn't taken this internship. It was a waste of time. Employer is so rude and racist. Lisa (the owner of Thinq.tv) has no idea how to manage a business and when an intern suggests an idea she immediately shuts them down and never listens to employees. And yes, there is no real employees. The whole website is based on interns who work so hard without getting paid or even just thanked at least. Oh I haven't mentioned that the employer will literally use the interns and doesn't provide any evaluation to get the college credit. This whole thing is a literal scam covered as a intern experience!
Advice
DO NOT TAKE THIS INTERNSHIP! Read the other reviews. You now know the employer is a bad person who uses interns for her own good and also tries so hard to put interns down!
And if you happen to take the offer, RUN AWAY.
The employer is ignoring all my emails asking for the college credit. Thankfully I could prove to my school I completed my experience there.
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UI/UX Designer Intern
December 2020 - January 2021 • East Lansing, MI
What I liked
I met the most amazing and intelligent people from this "internship". I still talk to some of these people regularly and we have become good friends outside of this company. The idea the owner has is awesome and has a lot of potential.
What I wish was different
First of all, the owner is EXTREMELY unprofessional, rude, and racist. She made a lot of fellow interns feel awful about themselves. There have been multiple instances of racist comments to interns as well as those who visit the site. This internship had caused a lot of stress and I did not get anything out of it other than realizing my self worth. She is not open to new ideas for the website (even though the website is in desperate need of a redesign) and if you deter her of "vision" you are met with demeaning backlash. She often goes on random negative tangents unrelated to improving the website and has little to no patience for accommodating people's schedules (if you are not available when she wants you to be on, she kicks you out). Also supposedly she has $3.2 million in funding which I believe is either false or that she is pocketing the money herself because she does not pay interns and the website does not reflect that amount of funding.
Advice
AVOID. AVOID. AVOID. I cannot stress this enough. This internship was a nightmare to deal with and I am glad that I realized it early on to focus on finding internships elsewhere.
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Marketing Intern
January 2021 • Scottsdale, AZ
What I liked
In the beginning stages of being interviewed for RoleModel Enterprise was completely professional, the facilitator/employer for ThinQ.TV a program designed for a program called Female + STEM = Activism.
What I wish was different
When I first went for the call for the interview through the website on ThinQtv I wasn’t able to figure out how to turn on my microphone and camera. The website ThinQtv is very similar to zoom when it comes to virtual calling but very different systems on how to operate the virtual call.
This was one of the red flags 🚩 many of the interviewers and I were having difficulties with operating a virtual call on ThinQtv. The facilitator/employer said, “ Ima start kicking people out of the call if you don’t know how to work something so simple.” At this point and time many of us felt very disrespected, undervalued, and demeaning of our intelligence once this was said. At the time I did not think anything of it. I just thought the facilitator/employer was more of an aggressive employer.
Another red flag 🚩 the facilitator/employer has weekly meetings/updates for the tasks that were assigned to each of the interns. Every Monday we have those meetings/updates for the tasks and must present what we have individually. When I presented my task and what I found as research as a marketing major the facilitator/employer completely discredited my research. Followed that the demeaning of my intelligence again for the second time the facilitator/employer demanded and re-iterated several times put me as the Owner for what you found. The facilitator/employer said, “Put me as owner! Put me as the owner! Put me as the owner!” This was aggressively to the interns, not just me. To my understanding claiming interns work for your own work is not an internship as well as her aggressive tone, demeanor, and insults.
The final and last red flag 🚩 Once again during that second weekly meetings/updates on Monday the facilitator/employer completely discredited and disrespected my presentation. The facilitator/employer went on deleting my work on the presentation. Followed by this she asked for my Etsy store to see my payment information. I refused and the facilitator/employer was once again aggressive, upset, and unsatisfied. The facilitator/employer said, “Take me to your store! I wanna see your store!” several times to me in the meeting with another intern. I was completely baffled and surprised that the facilitator/employer was so unprofessional.
This was the tip of the iceberg. At the end of the virtual call I ended up crying and made an appointment with my Internship Advisor to discuss my experience so far in this "Internship". My Internship Advisor said, ”This is not an internship it will be flagged”. I am hoping that other students or interns do not come to encounter with the employer and their behavior as an employer for RoleModel Enterprise.
Advice
Everything that I stated was a short summary of what I experienced, mind you many interns have experienced this terrible internship as well but did not voice their opinions and concerns about it. I want to make sure that others do not fall for the scheme of this internship because this is not an internship. YOU WILL BE ABUSED AND USED IN THIS INTERNSHIP. BEWARE. And please know you're worth even as a non-paid intern.
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Marketing and outreach
December 2020 - January 2021 • Scottsdale, AZ
What I liked
The positive thing about this experience is that I got to meet other interns and work with them, many of which were amazing people. Most interns had great ideas to promote the site and were willing to put in quite a bit of time and effort. The people I got to work with were very encouraging and will do very well in future I can tell!
What I wish was different
The founder is very rude, aggressive, and not open to any new ideas. She claims her brand is about activism and empowering women but the sole purpose is to make herself money. Activism is not about pocketing money, it's about advocating for change and spreading awareness. She blatantly told me and other interns that our purpose was to "make the money". She also false advertised positions by posting a position for a podcast on handshake. The experience was very traumatizing and not in any way empowering for a female.
Advice
Do not take this internship, there's better ones out there that will appreciate your time and promote a positive work environment. Research your company well before taking a position.
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Marketing Intern
July - August 2020 • Scottsdale, AZ
What I liked
Hosting conversations and getting to know my fellow interns with similar interests.
What I wish was different
This internship was awful. The founder/intern supervisor constantly made microaggressive comments to interns and sometimes to conversation guests. Many of the comments she made were racially insensitive. Interns make up almost all of the workers on this site and are usually not treated with respect. If you are coding/designing for the site you are doing all of the work for free, with no credit. She marketed the internship to make it seem like it was about hosting conversations on activism, which was intentionally misleading. Once you actually join, you learn that all she cares about is using people to get more users on her site. We were directly told not to put any effort into hosting conversations and instead, spend all our time trying to get users for the site. She requires you to contact (spam) people to use her site through your own personal email and social media accounts instead of using an official company one. In the end, the work feels highly exploitative with very little reward, especially since interns are not paid.
Advice
If you need an internship for college credit/funding, I would look elsewhere because there is only one supervisor and she will refuse to sign off on documents unless you do everything she wants, even after you've worked for weeks or months. She has refused to sign off on college credit papers before because she thought an intern "wasn't contributing enough". She refused to sign my college funding papers unless I signed a contract (given to me at the END of the internship, I was initially told marketing interns wouldn't have to sign it) saying that she owned everything I produced during the internship. This was something that should have been made clear before the internship started. Essentially, even if you actually show up and work the hours don't expect her to confirm those hours until she thinks you've benefitted her sufficiently.
