Techical Summer Intern Review
by American Express
Rating
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Skills
5.0
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Responsibilities
4.0
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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
Working in a SCRUM team on an intern project creating an API (backend and front end). Supported by the wider team
Skills
Learnt many new programming languages and testing techinqiues. Also massively improved my confidnce with talking to industry level professionals.
Responsibilities
Yes, as an intern team we had to create a project which will then be used in the wider team. We had to arrange meetings on our own, reach out to the wider team if we were stuck etc. It was great!
Support & Guidance
Weekly 1to1s with my manager, a slack channel to reach out to the wider team, the campus recruitment team were also there for any non-techincal questions! it was great
Culture
Everyone was super supportive and willing to help and chat! it felt very welcoming and not scary at all
Your Impressions
10/10, it was a brilliant expirence!
Yes
Just be yourself! They value how personable you are so much
Details
Internship (1 Month+)
Computer Science
South East
August 2023
