Don’t bother - Recensione dipendente - Intern presso Ben Ong

... Discover lots of details about prostate disease?

12 months (with a ridiculous six-month probation period) is not an 'internship', it's an excuse to underpay desperate people and fire them at a whim. Pay is below minimum wage (let alone London living wage), method of payment dubious and often late or inaccurate. 'Management' are unpleasant, unprofessional and unorganised, as evidenced by the incredible turnover rate. Staff often fired publicly or for strange reasons. Very cliquey. Judgemental but no internal ethics. No respect for data of their staff or customers. 'Marketing' department unfriendly, rude and uncaring. CEO does not live his own philosophy and is happy to admit it. Free lunches (of varying quality) will not pay for rent, food and travel. Progression seems based on personal relationships. More or less all staff 'self employed interns'; job adverts repetitive and misleading. 'Training courses' all downloaded rubbish. Attitude to incentivisation of reviews questionable; assume same situation regarding positive review by 'intern' below. Horrible experience and not worth undergoing for a line on a CV.

free lunch, bright office, nice co-workers

Virtually everything else. This company things they can keep you below the poverty line by giving you a lunch every day. Despite promising full-time jobs after 1 year's work, one other intern I knew was still only making £1000 per month after having worked there for 15 moths, working a 35 hour week. Pay-day was never the same each month and turnover is incredibly high. They'll promise you the world in your interview and then never deliver. I saw two people fired in the middle of the day that left crying. All this on top of selling a fairly expensive product "that is not intended to treat or cure any disease." Do not work here.