Systems Engineering Placement Student

by Knorr-Bremse Rail Systems (UK) Ltd.

Rating

4.1/5
  • Skills
    4.3
  • Responsibilities
    5.0
  • Support & Guidance
    4.5
  • Culture
    4.3
  • Your Impressions
    3.3

    Overview

  • 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.

    • Working on the Global Systems team, seeing what questions and issues have been raised and working through them to provide suitable responses to. This requires a general understanding of each subject area to ensure the system is working as expected.

    Skills

  • 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?

    • Developed lots of skills such as your classic organisation, planning, microsoft office based skills. As well as learnt new skills using software to automate processes in the company.

  • 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?

    • Yes, helping lead and drive projects forward not only based on work progress but also from a managerial point of view.

  • 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?

    • There is a whole team around you to support you and they are all subject matter experts in their field, so often know how to answer any question you through at them.

  • 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?

    • Ace. I enjoy the environment and company of people around me

  • 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?

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

    • 4/5

    Your Impressions

  • 6. To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?

    • I enjoyed working here, I wish to be challenged more in my field of work.

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

    • 4/5
  • Please rate how your experience met your expectations

    • 3/5
  • Please rate the future employment prospects at Knorr-Bremse Rail Systems (UK) Ltd.

    • 3/5
  • 7. Would you recommend Knorr-Bremse Rail Systems (UK) Ltd. to a friend?

    • Yes

  • 8. What advice would you give to others applying to Knorr-Bremse Rail Systems (UK) Ltd.

    • Speak to everyone around you and get to know what they do, everyone has a part to play with their role, networking is key to make the work you do take less time and the outcome delivered to a high standard.

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Details

Placement Year (10 Months+)

Computer and Systems Engineering

South West

March 2022

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