Working in a company or any organization is often competitive and scary. The reason that it can be so scary is because around you there are so many unknowns, and there is so much information that you do not have access to.
The job of directly handling interns in a company usually falls on the youngest mid-level recruit. This is because almost all companies are into high resource optimization to handle the recession, and find it hard to spare vital human resources for guiding and acclimatizing interns.