Microintern Review
by Cisco
Rating
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Skills
3.3
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Business Insight
3.3
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Culture
4.3
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Your Impressions
3.7
- 1. Please give an overview of the insight and what was involved on a day-to-day basis.
- 2. Have you learnt any new skills or developed existing skills?
- How would you rate the training provided during your experience?
- How would you rate the knowledge learned around industry-specific skills during the experience?
- How would you rate the knowledge learned around personal or professional skills during the experience?
- Please rate how the knowledge learned has helped you with regards to your career development
- 3. What was it like understanding all about the business and potential roles available?
- Please rate how insightful you found the insight
- How would you rate the structure of the insight
- How would you rate business leader involvement during the insight
- 4. What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?
- How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?
- How would you rate the networking opportunities?
- Please rate how valued you felt during your insight?
- 5. To what extent did you enjoy the insight?
- Please rate your level of enjoyment on the insight
- Please rate how your experience met your expectations
- Please rate the future employment prospects at Cisco
- 7. Would you recommend Cisco to a friend?
- 8. What tips or advice would you give to others applying to Cisco
Overview
SWE at Cisco Ensoft. In office role, although a lot of the office only comes in 2/3 days a week. I worked on some internal tooling and testing for it, and creating a testing framework for similar tooling.
Skills
Some interesting use of python. Useful to experience software engineering in a quite different environment compared to places I've worked before.
Business Insight
n/a, this was a short internship, not a business insight scheme.
Culture
Quite relaxed. Almost all employees were oxbridge grads, typically from non-cs backgrounds, so quite a unique atmosphere.
Your Impressions
Quite enjoyable, although the initial task was a bit too simple and so only took a day, and suggested extensions took another day. I found other tasks to work on after that, but a more complex project with wider scope or greater technical difficultly would have been preferable.
Yes
For this microinternship scheme, previous swe experience seems to be heavily selected for. For other roles, they seem much more willing to take on people without much previous experience, and seem to be quite good at training people.
Details
Insight / Vacation Scheme (< 4 Weeks)
Software Engineering
London
August 2023
