Salary has never been my main interest in a job but if a company is not willing to pay me more than 300 Euros, I assume that they are looking for somebody that doesn’t bring more than 300 euros worth of additional value into the company.
Yes I know that I’m not a professional yet, and that the learning process I am in costs a lot of money to a company (If you’re lucky to find a company, willing to give you that attention) But from what I’m hearing (from interns, teachers and professionals) it is quite simply a fact that most of the 300 euro companies are just taking advantage of their interns. Meaning a lot of work, but not much of a challenge, let alone a decent learning experience.
And quite frankly, how can it be any other way? A company that fixed the salary above 1000 will not be likely to accept just anything: they expect a lot from their intern. A company that doesn’t fix an income seems to want to base the salary on the person, which doesn’t seem like a bad idea either. But if a company fixes an income at 300 euro I tend to think that they do not care who comes in for as long as he’s cheap. I guess you would only settle for that at the point that you don’t think that you can do any better, you got refused by all the other companies offering higher salaries, or you were just too late finding anything…
So where is the interest for a company to put salaries that low? I would say to get the jobs done that nobody wants to do.
Me, I’m mainly looking for a company where I can put my qualities into action to help the company advance. In return I expect a company to supply me with sufficient challenges so that I can have I variable day of work in which I can expend my knowledge (and as a result my qualities) which places me and my employer in an everlasting win-win situation.
So where do I talk about money? Nowhere! Why? Because there is simply no way that you can find a company that complies with the above that is unreasonable about your salary
Update: I found an internship in february of this year, and in the whole search I only got confirmed what I wrote.