Software Engineering Intern Review

by G-Research

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.
  • My role involved creating a new app inside of G-Research. My work was hybrid, 10 days of Work from Home per month. I worked in a team with 6 members, and we had daily standups as well as frequent code demos and catchups. I worked from 9am to 5:30pm.


    Skills

  • 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
  • I worked on many new technologies and with dotnet (c# and asp.net core) and greatly improved my teamworking and collaboration 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?
  • I was given the responsibility of creating a product for internal use which would continue to be used after I had left the role


  • 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 daily catchups with my team and weekly meetings with my mentor, my manager and a intern manager, as well as going to several intern training events such as presentation skills and speaking up/being heard.


  • 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?
  • Very laid back, as long as the work was done everyone was happy. Lax clothing requirements (wear what you want), lots of benefits, friendly coworkers


  • 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 had an amazing time, learned a lot of new skills and made some good money with it


  • 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 G-Research
  • 5/5

  • 7. Would you recommend G-Research to a friend?
  • Yes


  • 8. What advice would you give to others applying to G-Research
  • Don't be nervous for the interviews and go for it!


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Details

Internship (1 Month+)

Computer Science

London

September 2022


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