Security undergraduate Review

by MBDA

Rating

4.4/5
  • Skills
    4.8
  • Responsibilities
    5.0
  • Support & Guidance
    5.0
  • Culture
    3.5
  • Your Impressions
    4.3

    Overview

  • 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
  • Helping the security team in a number of task. Thus included vetting, security patching and employee awareness


    Skills

  • 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
  • Presentation skills, confidence and professional experience. As well as specific security knowledge in relation to cyber security and defence companies


  • 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?
  • 4/5

  • 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?
  • Yes. Several tasks became my sole responsibility to manage and I would only seek advice when nessasary.


  • 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?
  • I received lots of guidance and someone would always make time for me if I had an questions, querys or concerns about my work


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

  • 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?
  • Whilst they was some interderment struggles my takeaway was how well the team I worked with would manage that appropriately. Within the team there was complete confidence and sharing between everyone


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

  • How would you rate the social opportunities?
  • 2/5

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

  • How would you rate the charity, sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives?
  • 3/5

    Your Impressions

  • 6. To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?
  • Unfortunately due to the covid pandemic my placment was not a good or social as I would have liked. However this was beyond the control of anyone. Given that my placement was an amazing experience and I would happily go back to the company again if offered a role.


  • 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 MBDA
  • 3/5

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


  • 8. What advice would you give to others applying to MBDA
  • Don't stress about the assessment day if you get invited. The company's interview process is very well designed to make sure you are relaxed and are able to present yourself to your full potential


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Details

Placement (10 Months+)

Information Technology

South East

October 2021


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