QA Engineer Review

Thoroughly enjoyable experience, friendly and helpful colleagues combined with work that is very flexible and insightful. Exactly what you would want from a year in Industry.

All the colleagues here at Mentor Graphics are always on hand for guidance and help you settle in quickly. They are all very friendly and make the experience even more enjoyable.

The management and supervisors as well as other individuals have been very helpful in terms of what I should be doing and how as well as being there for any support I need along my development, I have never had an issue with anything that someone didn't know and help is always swiftly received.

On a day to day basis you have assigned work as well as ongoing work that you should be getting on with when you do not have any work assigned. Therefore you always have something to do and the flexibility to look in certain areas of what Mentor Graphics has to offer.

You are given a lot of responsibility in terms of independent working. It is your responsibility to complete the work assigned and report back to supervisors and ask for any help. You also have the responsibility of choosing what you would like to work on when you don't have assigned work. Which can help you develop in certain aspects you feel you would enjoy.

This placement helps you gain more knowledge in flow dynamics and heat transfer as well as giving you experience in Industry to use once you graduate. Daily meetings and Planning all help better yourself within key aspects of development such as time management.

Everyone is always friendly so the atmosphere is great. We also go for a weekly Pub Lunch!

Placement was very organized, there have already had placement students for many years so it is not something new to Mentor Graphics.

Colleagues have invested a lot of time in helping me and continue to do so. I have also had training for different software that Mentor Graphics provide.

There are many people working at Mentor Graphics full-time who were previously on a student placement, proving that if you work hard future employment prospects are viable.

There is one other placement student in the office with me who is very friendly.

I live at home still so I am lucky enough to not pay rent! I spend around 100 pound on fuel a month to drive to work and socializing expenditure can be whatever you want it to be, but my office is in London so there is everything you could need here.

Central London is not very far away and Kingston is very near both with good bars and clubs.

We have organized movie nights every couple of months which are always a laugh and a Christmas Dinner.