Software Engineering Intern Review

by Softwire

Rating

4.6/5
  • Skills
    4.3
  • Responsibilities
    5.0
  • Support & Guidance
    4.0
  • Culture
    5.0
  • Your Impressions
    4.7

    Overview

  • 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
  • As an intern software developer, most time was spent either writing code towards the app we were working on, or reviewing code written by other members of the team.


    Skills

  • 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
  • Learnt app development with React Native, and using Firebase as a backend.


  • How would you rate the training provided during your experience?
  • 4/5

  • How would you rate your development of industry-specific skills during the experience?
  • 4/5

  • How would you rate your development of personal / soft skills during the experience?
  • 5/5

  • Please rate how these skills have helped you in your career development
  • 4/5

    Responsibilities

  • 3. Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?
  • Some responsibility for designing/implementing features and reviewing each other's work, but all quite closely supervised. Probably varies depending on who your tech lead is.


  • Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was
  • 5/5

    Support & Guidance

  • 4. How much support and guidance did you receive during your placement / internship?
  • Lots of support, tech lead almost always around to ask questions/get advice


  • How would you rate the support and guidance from your line manager?
  • 4/5

  • How would you rate the support and guidance from the wider team?
  • 4/5

    Culture

  • 5. What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?
  • Very friendly company, strong focus on morale/employee satisfaction, as well as on corporate responsibility. Generally a lovely place to work


  • How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?
  • 5/5

  • How would you rate the social opportunities?
  • 5/5

  • How would you rate the diversity initiatives?
  • 5/5

  • How would you rate the charity, sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives?
  • 5/5

    Your Impressions

  • 6. To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?
  • Very fun internship, lovely people and interesting work.


  • Please rate your level of enjoyment on your placement / internship
  • 5/5

  • Please rate how your experience met your expectations
  • 5/5

  • Please rate the future employment prospects at Softwire
  • 4/5

  • 7. Would you recommend Softwire to a friend?
  • Yes


  • 8. What advice would you give to others applying to Softwire
  • Be passionate about software development?


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Details

Internship (1 Month+)

Computer Systems Engineering

London

August 2021


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