Technology Intern Review

by Virgin Media O2

Rating

4.5/5
  • Skills
    4.5
  • Responsibilities
    5.0
  • Support & Guidance
    5.0
  • Culture
    4.0
  • Your Impressions
    4.7

    Overview

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

    • Various ad-hoc tasks to do with data analytics, reporting and automation. Includes using r for data analytics, automating tasks using excel including work with VBA. Work is mixed between the fixed and mobile networks of Virgin Media O2.

    Skills

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

    • Learnt VBA and some SQL, hugely developed my existing r skills (had a very basic grasp from uni). Also developed my competency with Excel. Furthermore learning involved soft skills such as stakeholder management, time management and networking opportunities

  • How would you rate the training provided during your experience?

    • 4/5
  • 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

    • 4/5

    Responsibilities

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

    • Yes - much of the work is related to key projects that are being done by the company such as the rollout of the full fibre rollout

  • 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?

    • Had weekly 121 calls with my manager, as well as a weekly team call. I also had a 'buddy' who is someone on my team that I could come to with any questions that I didn't want to ask my manager, as well as a mentor who was in the wider organisation who I could come to with any questions about career development etc.

  • 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 positive work culture. Encouraged to avoid burnout, not overwork and take time off. There are 5 volunteering days per year and a lot of encouragement to take them. There is also a large emphasis on personal development, we are given up to 2 hours a week to do non work-related training. There is a platform available to do this with courses on many different topics

  • How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?

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

    • 4/5
  • How would you rate the diversity initiatives?

    • 4/5
  • 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 enjoyed the majority of the work I had to do and felt that it was a great learning opportunity

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

    • 4/5
  • Please rate how your experience met your expectations

    • 5/5
  • Please rate the future employment prospects at Virgin Media O2

    • 5/5
  • 7. Would you recommend Virgin Media O2 to a friend?

    • Yes

  • 8. What advice would you give to others applying to Virgin Media O2

    • Take time to research the company and its current work to have interesting things to bring up at interview. Also consider what role you want in particular as it is a general technology placement - if you have something in mind then make sure that comes through in interview

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Details

Placement (10 Months+)

Data Science

South East

May 2023

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