Software Development Engineer Intern Review

by Expedia Group

Rating

5/5
  • Skills
    5.0
  • Responsibilities
    5.0
  • 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 on developing new features as part of a team of software engineers Weekly support rotations to provide customer technical support Fixing bugs and working on LODO items Meetings with team Incident management

    Skills

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

    • Learn new technologies - Reactjs, Typescript, AWS etc... Team work and collaboration skills System reliability engineering skills

  • 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?

    • Yes, I was treated like any team member except I was able to receive additional support to make sure everything was going smoothly.

  • 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 had a buddy/mentor who helped me so much through the learning curve. I received bi-weekly meetings with my manager to make sure everything was okay. We also received regular emails from the early careers team.

  • 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?

    • Optimistic, lovely culture. Even in the office, everyone smiles at you and is so friendly! People are happy to help and collaborate when you have an issue and teach you new things! The company very obviously cares about its people and its customers.

  • 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 enjoyed it so much I can't wait to come back.

  • 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 Expedia Group

    • 5/5
  • 7. Would you recommend Expedia Group to a friend?

    • Yes

  • 8. What advice would you give to others applying to Expedia Group

    • Be yourself, and truly focus on your strengths. Ask questions and don't be afraid to be wrong. Being wrong is okay, but make sure you show initiative and that you are keen to learn.

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Details

Placement (10 Months+)

Computer Science

London

June 2022

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