Business Technology Review
by Discover Financial Services
Rating
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Skills
5.0
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Responsibilities
3.0
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Support & Guidance
4.5
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Culture
5.0
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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 Discover Financial Services
- 7. Would you recommend Discover Financial Services to a friend?
- 8. What advice would you give to others applying to Discover Financial Services
Overview
Worked within DevOps team where I explored both front-end and back-end and contributed to UI refinement tasks, creating api endpoints, improving testing, code optimization and more..
Skills
Expanded my knowledge in RESTful Principles, APIs, Testing & QA & debugging, Data modelling, exception handling, Spring boot architecture, CI/CD foundations. Improved and learnt new technologies such as React.js, Jest, SpringBoot, JUnit SonarQube, Jenkins, PostgreSQL and more...
Responsibilities
Yes, my tasks were meaningful, although on a much smaller scale, I was still able to leave a lasting imprint on my team's project. It was still fulfilling to know I had autonomy over the tasks I was given and was treated like an actual employee.
Support & Guidance
There overall is a lot of support offered. It might vary from team to team, few managers are new and are inexperienced with interns so you would have to chase them up for support you need, but generally everyone else is really approachable and always willing to help.
Culture
Open, friendly, supportive and welcoming
Your Impressions
Really enjoyed it, learnt so much in such a short period of time, if only it was longer.
Yes
Technical skills are important, but what's really valued is your personality, soft skills and your willingness to learn.
Details
Internship (1 Month+)
Software Engineering
North East
August 2023
