Ask HN: Startup promised me a job, then backed out after the internship
TL;DR; Student from Europe, did an internship in a NYC startup, got promised to be hired. After having made all the plans for moving to US, the offer was retracted. In August I began an internship at a New York startup. Since I’m European, I had no expectations that it would have led to a full-time job, given the hassle of getting an H1B visa (in fact, I was already surprised that the company sponsored my J-1 for the length of the internship). After just a few weeks, the company was impressed with my performance (they told me I had already accomplished more than they expected from the whole three months) and they gave me a full-time offer. Compensation, option, benefits, visa paperwork, all there. I took some time to decide, as I was considering other opportunities, and eventually accepted. My girlfriend is American (we met in the UK, where we both did our master’s), and this was the bes
Why it failed
TL;DR; Student from Europe, did an internship in a NYC startup, got promised to be hired. After having made all the plans for moving to US, the offer was retracted. In August I began an internship at a New York startup. Since I’m European, I had no expectations that it would have
- Kind
- startup
- Status
- Shut down
- Inventor
- throwaway87
- Ended
- 2011
- Source
- hackernews