Most of what we know about the nature of fashion internships comes from our own experiences, friends’ experiences, articles like these and unrealistic portrayals on shows like The Hills and Gossip Girl. However, there are other resources that we didn’t know existed until recently–websites where people can go to anonymously rate and/or review their internship experiences. They’re sort of like RateMyProfessor, but for internships.

Unfortunately, there isn’t one that’s overwhelmingly comprehensive, but after perusing a few, we found some good (or really bad depending on how you look at it) evaluations of internships at big companies like Condé Nast and Hearst.

Most (not all) of them are negative and filled with horror stories–mainly because people seem more interested in writing negative things on the internet than positive ones. We’re sure plenty of people had positive experiences at these companies as well. [Ed. note: It's also been pointed out by a few readers that some of the reviews are a few years old and companies have changed in that time. So, grain of salt people!] Regardless, many of them do offer good insight into what people do during fashion internships. Read and learn. And please submit your own in the comments!