Rating

4.6/5
  • Skills
    5.0
  • Responsibilities
    4.0
  • Support & Guidance
    4.5
  • Culture
    4.3
  • Your Impressions
    4.7

    Overview

  • 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
  • Collecting user stories, working on making and refining products for stakeholders, making presentations, attending workshops, organising meetings, organising Planner tasks


    Skills

  • 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
  • I've learnt: Excel skills Stakeholder management skills Business Process Management software skills Project leadership I've developed: Presentation skills Initiative skills Collaboration


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

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

  • 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
  • 5/5

    Responsibilities

  • 3. Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?
  • I've acted as a project lead for an event and led presentations to senior stakeholders. I've also led meetings and hosted events.


  • Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was
  • 4/5

    Support & Guidance

  • 4. How much support and guidance did you receive during your placement / internship?
  • I've had a lot of people around me who are incredibly supportive and willing to answer any questions I may have. Having a wide network to reach out to has made remote working much easier and I'm grateful for all of my colleagues!


  • 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?
  • 5/5

    Culture

  • 5. What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?
  • Incredible, warm and welcoming environment. Was encouraged to also enjoy my life outside of work and was never forced to do overtime (which was a worry of working within a big corporation, but that was very swiftly squashed!)


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

  • How would you rate the social opportunities?
  • 3/5

  • How would you rate the diversity initiatives?
  • 4/5

  • 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?
  • 10/10, it's been an incredible experience that I've gained so many skills from and many connections with great colleagues who have been a pleasure to work with. The only thing that could improve it would be if I was able to work in person more but that is due to the pandemic, not BAE!


  • 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 BAE Systems
  • 4/5

  • 7. Would you recommend BAE Systems to a friend?
  • Yes


  • 8. What advice would you give to others applying to BAE Systems
  • The work environment is great to be within and their ethos is something that other companies should aspire to!


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Details

Internship (1 Month+)

London

September 2021


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