Software Engineering Intern Review
by Bloomberg
Rating
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Skills
4.8
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Responsibilities
5.0
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Support & Guidance
5.0
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Culture
4.8
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Your Impressions
4.3
- 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 Bloomberg
- 7. Would you recommend Bloomberg to a friend?
- 8. What advice would you give to others applying to Bloomberg
Overview
I work as a software engineer creating new features and also dealing with requests for current bugs/issues. I have meetings under the Agile framework with my team. I communicate with other engineers and ask for help in the wider engineering community.
Skills
Yes. I have learnt a lot about designing large scale systems and how to use a range of technologies such as Docker, PostgreSQL, WSL
Responsibilities
Yes. I was given full ownership of a project that the team wants to use in production. I was able to ask my team for help quite often, but I also needed to ask people outside of my team, and also undertake my own research online to solve problems.
Support & Guidance
I had a designated mentor who was available for me to direct questions to, however I felt able to ask questions to all of my team, including my team lead. I had fortnightly meetings with my team lead to discuss my progress and feelings about the internship. I was also able to benefit from the experience of the entire company by asking questions to other teams and experts.
Culture
I always felt like I could ask questions to anyone, and everyone was very happy to help me. Everyone I talked to (in- and out- side of my team) were very friendly, and I hope to keep in touch with a lot of people I have met.
Your Impressions
I enjoyed it a lot - it was very different to what I had studied at university, so the learning curve was quite steep, but I was well supported and have improved massively. The friendly culture of the company also made me feel welcomed. We had some really nice intern events as well which were a lot of fun.
Yes
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Details
Internship (1 Month+)
Computer Systems Engineering
London
September 2022
