Applications Support Review

My internship has been one of the best experiences in my life. I have thoroughly enjoyed my year. Working in a global team could be that enjoyable, was something I never thought of before. But yes, it has been incredibly amazing to work with a multinational company like GE Capital, gaining the experience to work with different vendors, worldwide based colleagues.

Interns play an integral role in the team, often collecting detailed information required to make business decisions. Because of this I were respected and my contribution was valued by all members of staff I dealt with,

Each intern is allocated an individual mentor, all of which are more than happy to explain unfamiliar concepts and provide guidance when making decisions with cost implications. Management are open to suggestions of new ways of doing things, providing you have the information to justify your decision.

The workload of the department is directly tied to engine inputs to the business and as such can vary significantly throughout the year. As I developed my skills I was able to take ownership of component repairs and follow them through the business, rather than just collecting information.

I was working on a Sigma project, which was my manager's responsibility first but later they assigned the project to me. So my main project was working with developers to get the dashoard completed and making sure there was enough communication within the team, and that the right product was created. So, I was given real high impact projects with real responsibilities

All these skill are transferable skills which will stay with me forever and will be used in my final year and day to day life too. These are the must have skills that one would need in their life to be able to successfully proceed and having practiced these skills at GE are going to make great different in the future.

There was a balance between work and fun. We had a building where we had Senior team in the ofice too, so atmosphere wasn't always funny. But haing said that, whenever the team got together, the office was all live and fun environment. So it was never boring because people were always coming to see the senior managers each week, so it was a perfect balance of work life and entertainment.

Pretty good. My manager was very excited to have me on board and she had very well defined my timings, roles, responsibilities, projects, team that I was going to be dealing with. My internship went very smooth in a way that everything like this was pretty much set up for me.

I have had to go to London office for the meetings with my team every week and the team invested the stay over and travel fair for me. For personal training as well, for workouts we have had to go to the main site in london and that was paid for each time.

Have very good chances to join the team, my manager wants me on board and in September I am going to be notified when they open the opportunities and interns will be reviewed first which means I have really good chance to get in if everything go well. It wouldn't have been possible if I didn't do a placement.

Yes, we had a group of interns from GE Capital, so 12 of us used to get together on work out days or even sometimes just after work. It used to be preplanned and this was communicated to the intern team well before the day of event. It wasn't only us people within GE Capital, the invitation was always forwarded to people in Corporate, GE Energy, GE Finance interns etc. So being full time interns we didn't let the spirit and flame of being University students turn down.

I was in Reigate where the cost of living was about £700 for one bedroom flat. The cost of socialisng wasn't too bad, there were some nice places to go to after work which weren't too bad (mind you, you will be earning like a full time employee so it wouldn't feel expensive).

To be very honest,we didn't have a lot of outings in Reigate office itself, whenever we were down to London Office, we were most likely to go out. Nightlife in Reigate is ok though, there are a few pubs by the offfice where by you can chill and grab a quick drink.

Yes, things like volunteer, cross business communication, helping other people outside your team, etc. were very popular and these activities give interns like us a good reputation as it shows that you are willing to take an extra step.