Unpaid Internship: The Corporate Scam?

Shafayat Hossain
5 min readApr 4, 2021

Chances are, you’ve recently pondered over a hiring post in social media where the company was looking for ‘unpaid interns’ and you thought to yourself, ‘this sounds like a good opportunity, but should I really work for free?’ But then you took a good look at your resume and decided to ‘gain some experience’, applied & congrats, you are hired on your first job (!). And from then on, you can only hope for your time to be worthwhile while staring down at the barrel of a corporate gun.

So, this is me, staring right back up at you, who’s already traveled through the…

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Shafayat Hossain

Founded a few businesses, hired a few people, and learned a few things worth sharing.