MTA Network is a Terrible Company

These guys barley knew what they were doing. The paperwork process to get start the internship was terrible. The visa guy couldn't tell me anything. I was in Vietnam at the time and in Vietnam you have to pay bribes and waste hours standing in a line with who potentially don't know how lines are supposed to work (meaning that the shove and try to cut and whatnot) in order to get the student visa for China. The directions that I was given were really unclear so I contacted the guy to get clarification about exactly what I needed. He gave me the address of a website that looked like it was last updated in 2007. The website neither had directions for America, nor Vietnam. I told him this and he told me just to go wait in the line and not worry about it. I did all this and was not given the student visa because I already had a tourist visa for China.

He was the one who was handling the paper work and the Visa and everything. When I told him what happened he said "Well you never told me you had a tourist Visa." Yes. Of course. I'm not the guy who has an internship company who is supposed to be an expert at the rules and regulations. You probably should ask that question during the interview and paperwork process.

So I wasn't able to get the student Visa, I wasted about 3 weeks of my life, the expenses during those three weeks, and he would not give me a refund on what was his mistake. He should have refunded me the whole cost of the visa because it was his mistake, not mine.

Anyway, the internship sucked. Waste of time. That's not MTA Networks fault, but what is their fault is that they didn't deliver on anything that they said they were going to do. They said they would get me a Chinese bank account - they never did that. They said they would assist with any of my questions or concerns. I was in Hangzhou, they were based in Qingdao. Whenever I asked them a question they said that they would have to ask the Hangzhou people at my company. They didn't help at all, didn't refund me my money when I wasted $800 or $900 on the Visa process (they refunded me half, but I still paid $400 for a Visa that I never got, due to their mistake).

It was so bad that I quit after two months. I informed him that I was quitting and I got the landlord to agree to give the security deposit that I paid to MTA Network before the internship started. He wouldn't give me the money back before the internship was over. I asked why? He said "Because thats policy." That's a pretty bad reason. The landlord agreed to give permission to give me the money back, but he wouldn't because "of policy".

Nothing good came out of this. Do NOT do business with this company.