Software/Platform/Security Engineer Review

by bp

Rating

4.9/5
  • Skills
    4.8
  • Responsibilities
    4.0
  • Support & Guidance
    5.0
  • Culture
    5.0
  • Your Impressions
    5.0

    Overview

  • 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
  • Working through user stories from the product backlog in order to help the DevOps team develop an app. High use of Azure DevOps, git, and (in this case) TypeScript. Did a lot of work do document internal software services using Open API specification (OAS 3.0).


    Skills

  • 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
  • Developed team working skills in a DevOps environment. Learnt to interact with the MuleSoft Anypoint platform, and further refined knowledge of TypeScript/NestJS and REST/GraphQL APIs.


  • 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?
  • 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?
  • Yes, the work I produced as part of my projects is live within the company, and some code I have written is in a production build of the public-facing application. Additional work involved evaluating and decommissioning unnecessary cloud services (from AWS and Azure).


  • 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?
  • EC team provided useful guidance and support for getting going in the company, and provided good training on soft skills such as networking and presenting.


  • 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?
  • Everyone is very friendly and willing to give their time to help you get set up, or work through any issues/blockers you have.


  • 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?
  • I thoroughly enjoyed putting the theory from university into practice in a corporate setting, and learned a lot about the way software engineering is done in practice.


  • 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 bp
  • 5/5

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


  • 8. What advice would you give to others applying to bp
  • Safety is always first, back yourself, and make sure you enjoy doing what you do and can show your passion for it.


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Details

Internship (1 Month+)

Computer Science

London

November 2021


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