Software Engineering Intern Review

by UBS

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Rating

4.4/5
  • Skills
    3.8
  • Responsibilities
    4.0
  • Support & Guidance
    4.0
  • 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.
  • 1st Team: Developing Azure resources to facilitate Data Engineers to do data cleansing. Using Terraform to create resources. Working in Agile and given issues in standups 2nd Team: Updating frontend of an application into React from js and d3 3rd Team: PySprark + Java and React application development


    Skills

  • 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
  • Yes, many technical and nontechnical. Technical: Azure, Gitlab, Terraform, Java, Python, React & JavaScript Non-tech: organisation, networking, presenting, public speaking, confidence, collaboration


  • How would you rate the training provided during your experience?
  • 3/5

  • How would you rate your development of industry-specific skills during the experience?
  • 3/5

  • 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?
  • There is opportunity for both, depends on how you utilize your time


  • 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?
  • Support here comes from personal connections, not a set-up mentoring system. However, the colleagues are lovely and will be happy to help.


  • 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?
  • Fairly relaxed and a lot of fun things going on. Nice and lovely culture, will have an enjoyable time. Some IT systems may be a frustration


  • 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 will look back on it very fondly and learned so much that university can never teach!


  • 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 UBS
  • 5/5

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


  • 8. What advice would you give to others applying to UBS
  • -


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Details

Placement (10 Months+)

Software Engineering

London

June 2023


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