UX Designer Review

by IBM

Best Student Employer

Rating

4.2/5
  • Skills
    4.5
  • Responsibilities
    4.0
  • Support & Guidance
    3.5
  • 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.
  • As a UX designer, my responsibilities will include discussing with clients their desired outcomes of a project, conducting user research and presenting this back to my team and client, developing personas based off research, conduct UX competitor analysis, creating wireframes, storyboards and flows to iterate ideas and conduct usability testing to assess how users interact with layouts.


    Skills

  • 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
  • Learnt new skills in design specific digital software, UX design toolkits, design systems, wireframing, developed skills in problem solving, communication and user interactions


  • 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?
  • 4/5

  • 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?
  • Yes, with understanding of projects I was trusted with producing assets individually as well as contributing to team work.


  • 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?
  • A lot of support both from task manager and foundation manager, as well as more senior member of project teams


  • How would you rate the support and guidance from your line manager?
  • 2/5

  • 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?
  • IBM iX has great community culture where everyone is willing to help out and support


  • 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?
  • 3/5

  • 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?
  • Highly


  • 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 IBM
  • 5/5

  • 7. Would you recommend IBM to a friend?
  • Yes


  • 8. What advice would you give to others applying to IBM
  • seek out to others to get advice and learn more about roles


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Details

Placement (10 Months+)

UX/UI Design

London

May 2023


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