Junior Software Engineer Review

by ASMPT

Rating

4.6/5
  • Skills
    5.0
  • Responsibilities
    5.0
  • Support & Guidance
    5.0
  • Culture
    4.0
  • Your Impressions
    4.3

    Overview

  • 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
  • Standard 8 hour work day. Usually one to two hours of meetings with manager and project team. Remaining time spent working on current project, usually writing a Functional Design Specification. This involves requirement analysis, design specification, making UI wireframes and creating UML diagrams. As well as plenty of emails and messages to experts in other departments.


    Skills

  • 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
  • Undertook internal training on the printer hardware and software. Developed technical skills on software like Enterprise Architect to create UML diagrams. Developed my public speaking, written communication and inter-personal 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. From very early on I was tasked with work that would be directly used by the company and my colleagues. I have written documentation that is part of the ASM FDS catalogue and will hopefully remain relevant and useful for many years to come.


  • 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?
  • Everyone at ASM was very happy to answer any and all questions I had, Everyone was very friendly and approachable.


  • 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?
  • The general atmosphere is very relaxed and friendly. Both my immediate colleagues and those higher up the hierarchy were very relaxed and easy to talk to.


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

  • How would you rate the social opportunities?
  • 4/5

  • How would you rate the diversity initiatives?
  • 3/5

  • 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 thoroughly enjoyed my placement.


  • 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 ASMPT
  • 3/5

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


  • 8. What advice would you give to others applying to ASMPT
  • Ask as many questions as possible at the start.


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Details

Placement (10 Months+)

Computer Systems Engineering

South West

July 2022


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