Intern Review
by American Express
Rating
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Skills
4.0
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Responsibilities
5.0
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Support & Guidance
5.0
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Culture
4.8
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Your Impressions
5.0
- 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
- 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
- How would you rate the training provided during your experience?
- How would you rate your development of industry-specific skills during the experience?
- How would you rate your development of personal / soft skills during the experience?
- Please rate how these skills have helped you in your career development
- 3. Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?
- Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was
- 4. How much support and guidance did you receive during your placement / internship?
- How would you rate the support and guidance from your line manager?
- How would you rate the support and guidance from the wider team?
- 5. What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?
- How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?
- How would you rate the social opportunities?
- How would you rate the diversity initiatives?
- How would you rate the charity, sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives?
- 6. To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?
- Please rate your level of enjoyment on your placement / internship
- Please rate how your experience met your expectations
- Please rate the future employment prospects at American Express
- 7. Would you recommend American Express to a friend?
- 8. What advice would you give to others applying to American Express
Overview
I was placed in a team of other interns and given a project to complete involving both frontend and backend. This involved daily stand ups in my team, coding and presenting at sprint reviews
Skills
Learnt about working in a professional environment. Learnt new frameworks and coding languages.
Responsibilities
Yes I was given a specific project to work on and we managed our work together as an intern team
Support & Guidance
We had a lot of guidance from other engineers who were always ready to help us with any problems or questions outside of the project that we had. We were also given buddies to have weekly catch ups with for support
Culture
A very relaxed friendly atmosphere. Networking was encouraged and everyone felt approachable and easy to talk to
Your Impressions
I really enjoyed it and felt it gave me good work life balance for summer too
Yes
Make sure to make the most of talking to other members of the company as well as other interns
Details
Internship (1 Month+)
Software Engineering
London
July 2023
