Software Developer Review

by Barclays

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Rating

4.7/5
  • Skills
    4.8
  • Responsibilities
    5.0
  • Support & Guidance
    4.0
  • 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.

    • Worked as part of a group, consisting of 3 interns to develop an application that will be used in a wide variety of ways by a development team after we leave. Daily: Stand up call Code development Meetings Research Discussing potential solutions Debugging

    Skills

  • 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?

    • Yes, learned a lot over the internship. Technologies worked with: AWS Lambdas Python React js RDS Cloud Computing

  • 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?

    • 5/5
  • 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?

    • Yes, we were given guidance but were prompted to self-learn as much as possible as to simulate the real software working environment as closely as possible.

  • 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?

    • Received support from line managers where required.

  • 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?

    • 4/5

    Culture

  • 5. What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?

    • Company culture was excellent, big push for a health-working environment and Barclays is easily the most diverse company that I have ever worked for

  • How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?

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

    • 4/5
  • How would you rate the diversity initiatives?

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

    • 5/5

    Your Impressions

  • 6. To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?

    • Thoroughly enjoyed the internship, learned a lot working alongside other interns and joining in with wider team stand-up sessions. Would definitely work for barclays in the future.

  • 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 Barclays

    • 5/5
  • 7. Would you recommend Barclays to a friend?

    • Yes

  • 8. What advice would you give to others applying to Barclays

    • Networking is crucial in Barclays. Speaking to many directors and managing directors should be that so many job roles are filled through a strong working relationship and a good repuation. Barclays core values and goals play a big part in the interview process, make sure you are aware and revise what these are

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Details

Internship (1 Month+)

Computer Science

Scotland

August 2023

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