Management Trainee Intern Review

The job advert for the placement is very misleading and does not provide a true account of what the actual placement entails. I did not enjoy the placement as a whole as I spent the majority of my day driving and delivery cars. Plus, overtime is not optional so although you are contracted 50 hours a week a regular week for myself was 60-70 hours.

Undervalued and taken advantage of as well as taken for granted. You were expected to go above and beyond for the company meaning that you regularly had to cancel plans in order to stay late and deliver cars, this was not optional you HAD to stay and it was just expected of you. Enterprise are often first to point the finger when you do something wrong but last to congratulate or reward when you do something well. You are just an employee to Enterprise not a person, they can replace you easily.

Direct managers I don't think are the problem at Enterprise they try to give trainee interns as much support as possible but when they aren't getting support from their managers it is hard for them to do so.

On a daily basis the work load (driving and serving customers) is crazy. Enterprise has a yes mentality but to the extreme. They will rarely say no to a deal meaning that employees end up going above and beyond to extreme lengths (i.e. working long hours and driving extensive hours a day).

Barely any responsibility. After being told you'd be taught how to run your own business to find that actual you have very little responsibility and you are just a driver is quite hard hitting and knocks self confidence as you feel worthless to the company.

The first week of training is good but after that they hold a couple of other training sessions that are quite pointless and you don't actually ever get to put into practice what you learn because you aren't given the opportunity in the branch as it is too busy to train and you're needed on the road. I feel I learnt skills as a person and I learnt how not to do things but I did not learn very much academically to put towards my degree.

The actual office I worked it was good. I got on well with everyone I worked with however we didn't actually spend that much time together due to the work load and being out on the road. Without the team I worked with I do not think I would have gotten through the year so in that sense I was lucky.

Not very well organised. The branches are too busy for training and development so skills are rarely developed.

I don't feel like they invested very much into me especially when they realised I would not return after uni. Training is not something that can be done in branches as there is not enough time to train when you're already working 11-12 hour days.

The company does not appeal to me for the future at all.

There is not very much time to socialise as you do not really have a social life when working for Enterprise. As its a 7 day organisation it is unusual for everyone to be able to meet outside work.

I lived at home so was like it always has been in Reading. Relatively expensive to socialise but a lot of good pubs and clubs.

Reading has a relatively good night life.

There would have been if the hours at Enterprise weren't so long. It was hard to have motivation to do anything outside of work.