2.8/5
The guidance that was provided was good. Learned a lot on the additive manufacturing side. The project was not as challenging as I would have hoped.
Everyone was super supportive and my project seemed to be valued at large.
Daily standups with the wider team and with my mentor and intern team. Could talk to my manager whenever I needed something.
I would say that I worked a decent amount with a lot of time going to debugging hardware that I was working on. In terms of software engineering, probably less than one would expect from a swe internship.
I would say that the overall idea and design were already laid out for us to the extent of some tasks already being created too. So it was more of implementing something rather than taking ownership over it. We demoed the project which was about the extent of our responsibility for it.
I think I learned less than I would have hoped to on the swe side of things.
The internship was remote, so not sure how it is normally, but everyone was very nice and supportive. We were encouraged to set time aside for non-work activities.
Clear training, project allocation and road-map.
There are some videos available on the training platform and a two week provided training. Ours was in some basic c++ and python.
There is a clear path to go from internship to grad role in Birmingham. If you want to go to another office to do your grad scheme, this seems pretty much unheard of (you can just apply to a position that is not the grad scheme for that).
There were activities outside of work, although a lot of these were after work hours.
I worked remotely, so did not relocate to Birmingham for the internship.
I worked remotely, so did not relocate to Birmingham for the internship.
There were activities outside of work, although a lot of these were after work hours.