Technology Summer Intern Review
by American Express
Rating
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Skills
5.0
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Responsibilities
5.0
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Support & Guidance
5.0
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Culture
5.0
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Your Impressions
4.3
- 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
- 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
- How would you rate the training provided during your experience?
- How would you rate your development of industry-specific skills during the experience?
- How would you rate your development of personal / soft skills during the experience?
- Please rate how these skills have helped you in your career development
- 3. Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?
- Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was
- 4. How much support and guidance did you receive during your placement / internship?
- How would you rate the support and guidance from your line manager?
- How would you rate the support and guidance from the wider team?
- 5. What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?
- How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?
- How would you rate the social opportunities?
- How would you rate the diversity initiatives?
- How would you rate the charity, sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives?
- 6. To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?
- Please rate your level of enjoyment on your placement / internship
- Please rate how your experience met your expectations
- Please rate the future employment prospects at American Express
- 7. Would you recommend American Express to a friend?
- 8. What advice would you give to others applying to American Express
Overview
Actively contributing to the codebase of the company. Delivering products just as any other graduate and senior teams. Working in an Agile team of 5, being involved in SCRUM meetings, creating stories, planning sprints, demoing products and contributing to perspective. Working with latest technologies, such as Kubernetes, Jenkins, Spring Boot, Reactive programming.
Skills
I have learnt and improved my knowledge of Java, while also consolidating my coding and development practices. I have also gained expertise in dev-ops and got insights into how scalability is handled at Amex.
Responsibilities
Our project will help the company get proper metrics for the services they provide. Our project has not felt as an internship project and has added value to the company.
Support & Guidance
All the seniors are able to help whenever we need it. We also had access to a lot of meetings to discuss any technical and social issues we had.
Culture
Family. Amex puts a lot of emphasis on the customer and employees. This results in a very pleasant environment, where one feels valued, feels important and not stressed.
Your Impressions
The internship was a tremendous experience, from which I've not only learnt how to be a better Software Engineer, but also consolidated my leadership skills and improved my network of people.
Yes
Explore the business of Amex. You will be surprised how much there is to know about Amex.
Details
Internship (1 Month+)
Computer Science, Computer Systems Engineering
South East
July 2021
