The colleagues are nice and will all try to help you get through the probationary period.

The title “management trainee” sounds nice, but in reality you’re just a jack-of-all-trades. At first, you’re expected to help the sales staff with merchandising displays; later, you’re asked to help the drivers make deliveries. It’s all physical labor. After a tiring day, you also have to write a report every day and send it back, and you’re graded on it. The field internship has a bunch of rules but no professional distribution channels, making it feel like a pyramid scheme. They even laughed at us for still using such primitive methods. They require you to hit a certain quota for it to count as performance, yet they’re delivering even $100 bottles of water. The sales staff don’t handle returns of soon-to-expire products, so before the end of the workday you have to clean up the mess with the driver. When you report problems, they’re always casually brushed aside as “just an isolated case.” After working for three months, all I remember is getting only 53K in the end. It was truly heartbreaking.

In addition, assignment based on suitability is only for reference. Whatever position you apply for, that will be your position once the probationary period ends, except in the case of industry-academia collaboration programs.