Want to know what your interns really think about your company? InternshipRatings.com gives interns the opportunity to rate the companies which rated them over the summer, during a semester, or any other time they were forced to make copies and fetch coffee.
Students can register on the site and voice their opinions on current or past internships with the option of anonymity. Once the narrative is complete, the students then input a rating based on their experience at the firm. The company’s overall rating is then based on a five coffee cup scale, which is the average of all scores students have given the organization. The top-rated company on the site right now is XM Satellite Radio (with five reviews). The worst-rated company is Monster.com (with only one review).
Along with reviews, InternshipRatings surveys students about their salary, work environment, and networking opportunities while at their employer.
The real value of InternshipRatings comes from research. Prospective interns and employees can browse the site to learn what the experience was like and find out what it takes to be successful at the firm.
For example, one user reviewed the Walt Disney College Program and said that interns “work at Disney World in the resort hotels or the theme parks” and the best time to do it “is in the Fall when it is not as hot as summer and you get to be there for the holidays, which is when the parks are absolutely amazing.”
For added help, the site also features an interactive career advice column written by career services professionals, human resources directors and company executives. So far, representatives from Major League Baseball, General Mills, Pfizer, and Ernst & Young LLP have contributed to the site.
InternshipRatings is quick to note that anonymity is made available for those who don’t want to be identified giving a company a bad review, which should help the site considerably given the importance of a good reputation when applying for a job.
InternshipRatings is free to use and is being updated daily with more companies, making it a site well worth checking out for college students that are looking to find a job.
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How is this different from rating your employers sites that were featured a while ago?
Interns are special. They need their own sites. They are sensitive pearls of youthful innovation.
Doesn’t seem to solve any purpose..not even a good place for fun…Skeptical about its future….
I’ve had bad internships in the past at large investment banks. Sometimes those internships are set up under the table and can lead to a crappy experience (Basically there is no formal internship program). I wonder how situations like that are or aren’t included in this site.
Love the idea - am very interested to see how it builds over time. This reminds me of ratemyprofessors.com, which started out slow but has just exploded in popularity… There are too many companies out there who take advantage of interns - like how this gives interns a chance to fight back! I’ve been lucky, but multiple friends of mine have had internships where it’s just been “here is your coffee sir, two creams, one sugar”. This site hits close to home, since I’ve just started an internship at Carrieanddanielle.com..!
How is this any different from
vault.com
jobvent.com
jobbite.com
glassdoor.com
To be honest I’m torn between the two sites right now. I like the look and feel of internshipratings but rateinternships is making a name for itself now. Both sites could use some basic SEO though
i think the difference is they are focusing on a narrow band of employees, with more homogenous work; the experience interning for a company could be a lot different from working there.
my only critique: explain how you make money without using the word “adsense”
Why not offer an internship job board? $100 to post a job is a reasonable rate.
http://www.youintern.com does just that
Mike : maybe it just has a longer but WAY better name
Just about any niche social networking website nowadays will make a million dollars easily
I’m not sure how they would make money other than companies advertising. That must be their thought process.
Sounds like a cool tool that could have been useful in college to determine if the if the internships I were applying to were worth it or not and to find out if there was real work to be done or just typical intern stuff. Is there going to be a section to promote internships as well?
Craig
http://www.budgetpulse.com
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I will push our videographer interns to start using this.
Hi Everyone,
My name is Stephanie Gurtman and I am a student at Boston University and the Co-Founder of InternshipRatings.com. I appreciate all of your comments and feedback about the site. I would like to address some of your concerns.
The purpose of InternshipRatings.com is to enable students to find the most meaningful and beneficial internships possible. My business partner Lauren and I initially founded the site because of our personal internship experiences, which greatly differed from our initial perceptions. We are confident that students can learn about a company’s culture, the way it treats employees, and the responsibilities they will have from their peers’ reviews (just as we would have). Furthermore, companies can evaluate their programs from the feedback and tweak them accordingly.
Our site is different from employer rating web sites and internship listing sites because it offers an in depth look into companies through our questions (ranging from fair hours to boss participation). The comment section allows users to create a more personalized review by mention important facts or funny stories that are relevant to other internship seekers. Additionally, Take Note offers expert advice from various industry professionals in an interactive format. Students can pose questions to the authors for more information about a topic.
InternshipRatings.com is undergoing some modifications (aesthetic, functionality, and new features) that will address frustrations about not having fun on the site. A video rating component will be launched sometime within the next few months. Other new features include: user to user messaging to discuss a rating or a company; internship listings; and locally rated internships when you sign in. We are working to make searching for a company much easier.
Thanks again for your comments! Be sure to check back with InternshipRatings.com for new exciting changes.
Best,
Stephanie Gurtman
well done. Best of luck to you.
Stephanie,
Great job on the site! Definitely see the potential for it. Im curious how did you put the site together? Being a student it must have been tough to raise money to build the site. How did you go about funding this project? Did you get help from fellow students or professors?
Best of luck!
Addendum to my post…
We will monetize by employing the tactics below:
+internship listings
+sponsorships for Take Note articles
+partnership with InternBridge, a consulting firm that helps companies create
and manage their internship programs
+feature for career service centers to evaluate employers
–Stephanie Gurtman
Great idea - sounds like this would be a real service for people starting their careers.
It is a great idea!, check out internshare.com, we made it to be the most usable internship review site around
intershare.com is absolute fail! You apparently can’t do anything without signing up first….
that is suckage to the maximum!
What an amazing idea! This is a great idea and EXTREMELY practical for so many people. Keep up the good work!
“InternshipRatings is quick to note that anonymity is made available for those who don’t want to be identified giving a company a bad review”
While this is a good thing to have, it seems like the possibility of getting someone fired is a PR disaster waiting to happen.
http://www.usaintern.com is another decent site for internships. Most listings are East coast right now but looks like it’s moving West as well.
I think this is a great idea! So many times internships are not what you think they are going to be and with sites like this, you can get a previous intern’s actual experience before accepting the position!
The French have a fresh website of this kind.
It’s named “Note Ton Stage.fr”.
Yep, http://www.NoteTonStage.fr
There are a number of sites doing internship reviews. They are all fairly small so when you are looking for an internship you should use all of them to find reviews. I’ll list the more useful ones I know about below:
http://www.rateinternships.com/
http://www.youintern.com/
http://www.internshipratings.com/
http://www.coopratings.com/
ultimateintern.com
looks to be good internship site too
This site is useful and well designed. It is a good cause and I hope the site grows.