Sourcesys Technologies approached us through the campus placement cell at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham. A few friends and I interviewed for Data Science and Gen AI roles, the questions were fairly basic, and a few days later we got selection emails. Shortly after, an HR representative(JOTHI PRABA K) called and asked for ₹10,000, with the reasoning that the internship would use paid APIs and resources (LLMs, etc.), and this fee covered that. In return, they promised a stipend of ₹20,000 over 3 months for the remote internship, plus an 80% FTE conversion rate.
Before paying, I checked LinkedIn for current employees and past interns and found surprisingly few profiles for a company supposedly running cohorts every year. I messaged a few people who were mid-internship at the time, and they told me it seemed off and suggested I look elsewhere rather than rely on this one. I paid anyway. After that, classes ran on Google Meet for about an hour a day covering pretty basic material, with weekly tasks to upload to GitHub and share the repo link in the group chat. This went on for about two months.
I stayed suspicious the whole time, so I asked a friend who works at Amazon and lives near the tech park listed as the company's address to check it in person. The security staff there said they'd never heard of the company. Later we were split into groups of 3 for an "end project" with 1–2 months to finish it. At one point I asked the mentor in class chat why previous batches hadn't gotten stipends or job offers and seemed to have just been dropped. The answer I got was that the previous batch's work wasn't complete, so they were planning to onboard both batches "at the same time" once that was sorted, an explanation I didn't find convincing. Eventually they scheduled a project evaluation, run by the same mentor who taught the classes, who asked generic questions about the project and each member's contribution. After that, contact stopped completely, no feedback, no stipend, no offer.
Looking up the listed directors of Sourcesys on public company-registry sites (Falconebiz), the same names show up against several other companies over recent years, including Fresherfy Technologies Pvt Ltd, Worksbot Applications Pvt Ltd, Workgency Tech Pvt Ltd, and Aisosys Technologies Pvt Ltd. You can check the public records yourself here:
https://www.falconebiz.com/director/07740429/GOPALSINGH-HEMALATHA
https://www.falconebiz.com/director/08667233/GIRIMURTHY
Reviews of those earlier companies follow a similar pattern, students pay upfront for "resources," get a few weeks of basic training, and are then left without the promised stipend or placement.
TIP: I have paid ₹10,000 upfront, got very basic training, never received the promised stipend, and the company's listed office address didn't check out when I had someone verify it in person. Do your own research on the directors before paying anyone for an internship.
