Business IT Intern Review

by Siemens

Rating

4.8/5
  • Skills
    4.8
  • Responsibilities
    5.0
  • Support & Guidance
    4.5
  • Culture
    4.8
  • Your Impressions
    5.0

    Overview

  • 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
  • Helping get people online with correct access and authorisations to SAP. Involves operating a helpdesk, enhancing existing roles with new functionality, providing audit support, generating reports and creating new users for upcoming projects.


    Skills

  • 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
  • I’ve developed my confidence a great deal through many opportunities to present and meet new people, as well as becoming a more collaborative and time-conscious contributor to my fast-paced team environment. Having to keep track of many tasks and preparing for work events also helped boost my organisational skills, and I’ve learned a great deal about responsibility and how to carry myself.


  • 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?
  • 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 responsibility over the user accounts I dealt with and the processes I did that had to be compliant with audit procedures, and was also on teams that were responsible for co-ordinating large scale events both internal to my team and external.


  • 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 received a great deal of support from my in company manager, functional manager, placement co-ordinator and every member of my team.


  • 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?
  • 4/5

    Culture

  • 5. What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?
  • The company culture within Siemens UK IT is fantastic and extremely close-knit, as we have many informal events and opportunities to socialise and explore the surrounding area beyond which we work while also maintaining a professional demeanour.


  • 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?
  • 4/5

    Your Impressions

  • 6. To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?
  • I thoroughly enjoyed my placement! I found it to have pushed me outside my comfort zone regularly and help me greatly with evaluating where I see myself working in the future, more specifically in a culture like the one at Siemens.


  • 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 Siemens
  • 5/5

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


  • 8. What advice would you give to others applying to Siemens
  • The working culture at Siemens can’t be matched anywhere else, and the development opportunities they have on offer benefit you in so many ways and help you become a well-rounded individual.


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Details

Placement (10 Months+)

Computer Science

South West

July 2023


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