Vacation Student Review

by Arup

Rating

3.4/5
  • Skills
    3.8
  • Responsibilities
    4.0
  • Support & Guidance
    4.0
  • Culture
    2.5
  • Your Impressions
    3.3

    Overview

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

    • - Assisting design team with drawings and calculations - Attending team meetings - Reading and understanding engineering standards and theory

    Skills

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

    • - Use of software e.g. Rhino, Bluebeam, AutoCAD - Time management and presentation 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?

    • 4/5
  • How would you rate your development of personal / soft skills during the experience?

    • 3/5
  • Please rate how these skills have helped you in your career development

    • 3/5

    Responsibilities

  • 3. Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?

    • - Design calculations actually contributed to current work of the team and not just dummy calcs for an intern. - Not much project involvement apart from specific task I was asigned - No client interactions - Not much exposure to business outside of team I was in

  • Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was

    • 4/5

    Support & Guidance

  • 4. How much support and guidance did you receive during your placement / internship?

    • - People very willing to help if you reach out, need to be proactive as people unlikely to reach out to you first - Very much what you make of the experience

  • 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?

    • 3/5

    Culture

  • 5. What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?

    • - No centralised intern programme so didn't have the opportunity to network a lot - Socialising within teams varied greatly depending on which team you were in - Good at encouraging women in STEM - Good outside of work activities e.g. 5 aside football weekly

  • How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?

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

    • 1/5
  • How would you rate the diversity initiatives?

    • 3/5
  • How would you rate the charity, sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives?

    • 2/5

    Your Impressions

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

    • - Exciting projects to work on and innovative design solutions - not found in many other companies - Company culture is very much you are responsible for your own work and have to be proactive - Few site opportunities - No micromanagement so left to get on with own work which was nice

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

    • 3/5
  • Please rate how your experience met your expectations

    • 3/5
  • Please rate the future employment prospects at Arup

    • 4/5
  • 7. Would you recommend Arup to a friend?

    • Yes

  • 8. What advice would you give to others applying to Arup

    • - Interview process was a mix of personality questions and technical knowledge - recommend researching industry and current work at Arup for interview

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Details

Internship (1 Month+)

Civil Engineering

International

August 2022

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