IT Placement
by Network Rail
Rating
4.6/5
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Skills
5.0
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Responsibilities
5.0
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Support & Guidance
4.5
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Culture
4.0
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Your Impressions
5.0
- 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 Network Rail
- 7. Would you recommend Network Rail to a friend?
- 8. What advice would you give to others applying to Network Rail
Overview
My first role was in the ‘Performance Testing and Automation’ team as a script programmer for performance testing. Then i joined the Digital Factory Software Development team. This team is responsible for developing apps that are used by railway workers. They follow Agile software development methods therefore in this team I gained an insight on how to work in an agile environment
Skills
Time management Agile Working Compiling Reports Work-life balance Working Remotely
5/5
5/5
5/5
5/5
Responsibilities
I was given the opportunity to take full ownership under guidance of a cloud migration project. The aim of this project is to migrate IT products hosted on premises servers to cloud hosting.
5/5
Support & Guidance
My mangers were very helpful and helped me fit into the work environment well. they mentored me all the way
5/5
4/5
Culture
Everyone was very friendly and helpful. very welcoming
5/5
1/5
5/5
5/5
Your Impressions
i loved my placement year and i cant wait to go back
5/5
5/5
5/5
Yes
Be yourself in the assessment centre don't try too hard
Details
Placement Year (10 Months+)
Computer Science
West Midlands
November 2021
