Software Engineer Review
by Nomura
Rating
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Skills
5.0
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Responsibilities
5.0
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Support & Guidance
5.0
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Culture
5.0
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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 Nomura
- 7. Would you recommend Nomura to a friend?
- 8. What advice would you give to others applying to Nomura
Overview
I worked as DevOps in an Agile team as part of the SDLC team. I handled numerous internal applications doing Full Stack Development & CI/CD through the use of the Nomura Devops Module & its Toolchain. I constantly communicated with my stakeholders from all around the world & transforming their requests into user stories & then JIRA issues.
Skills
Yes, I have: -Docker -React & Redux -NodeJs, Express -JS. HTML, CSS -MySql -Jenkins -Ansible -SonarQube Metrics -Unit Testing & Functional Testing Automation with Zephyr -JIRA -Natural Language Processing -Toolchains & Devops Module -Splunk metrics -API usage, design and creation -Communication & active listening -Ops Work -Stress & Workload balancing -Innovation -Project Management -Fast problem troubleshooting -Valuable experience working in a competitive environment
Responsibilities
I was given a lot of responsibility from the get go, empowering me to get my hands on working with apps with 4k-6k active users from all around the world and later with more business critical applications.
Support & Guidance
I think I received a lot of support and guidance from my manager, buddy and mentor during the placement that has helped me a lot settling into the work I did for Nomura. This was especially important through the begging part of my placement winch was completely online because of Covid.
Culture
The general atmosphere was very positive and people keen to netowrk, share their work or professional experience or provide advice or guidance. Every Thursday, there is a Drinks on the Terrace event where everybody from Nomura is welcome to come socialize, relax or network. Besides this, there are numerous events or activities team can do.
Your Impressions
I really enjoyed my placement and Nomura is definitely a place where I would like to come back to where I learned a lot both technical wise and people wise.
Yes
Research the company & its business. Train on your logical & technical skills. Train your communication and problem solving skills
Details
Placement (10 Months+)
Information Technology
London
July 2022
