Rating

3.9/5
  • Skills
    3.8
  • Responsibilities
    5.0
  • Support & Guidance
    4.5
  • Culture
    3.8
  • Your Impressions
    3.7

    Overview

  • 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
  • Working on databases to do data integration for naval ships. Completing and analysing maintenance updates.


    Skills

  • 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
  • Improved on my presentation skills through doing monthly development presentations and other opportunities, communication and teamwork skills, and time management. Also problem solving by considering reliability centred maintenance.


  • 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?
  • 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
  • 3/5

    Responsibilities

  • 3. Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?
  • A fair amount for the amount of knowledge and experience I had in the role. I was responsible the basics like completing my work to the best of my ability, doing things on time etc. but I also has supervisors and team members to check my work and help me throughout.


  • 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?
  • A lot. Any questions I had or things I wanted to learn, I could go to almost anyone within my immediate team and they would help or point me to someone who could. Also had regular catch up meetings to check how I was finding things.


  • How would you rate the support and guidance from your line manager?
  • 4/5

  • 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 friendly and supportive


  • How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?
  • 4/5

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

  • How would you rate the diversity initiatives?
  • 3/5

  • How would you rate the charity, sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives?
  • 3/5

    Your Impressions

  • 6. To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?
  • I enjoyed it overall. There were ups and downs but I appreciate that I've learnt and developed a lot during the time


  • Please rate your level of enjoyment on your placement / internship
  • 4/5

  • Please rate how your experience met your expectations
  • 3/5

  • Please rate the future employment prospects at BAE Systems
  • 4/5

  • 7. Would you recommend BAE Systems to a friend?
  • Yes


  • 8. What advice would you give to others applying to BAE Systems
  • Do as much research as possible into the day in, day out of your role so you have a better idea of what to expect. Be willing to communicate, learn and share when you don't know something.


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Details

Placement (10 Months+)

Engineering

South West

July 2023


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