Rating

5/5
  • Skills
    5.0
  • Responsibilities
    5.0
  • Support & Guidance
    5.0
  • Culture
    5.0
  • Your Impressions
    5.0

    Overview

  • 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
  • As a Cloud Engineer, I've been a key member of a team responsible for migrating a global payment solution from on-premises to Azure Solutions. My role has involved designing and building multiple environments for different use cases using Terraform. I also designed the disaster recovery (DR) solution for our microservices application, ensuring that the application is highly available and fault-tolerant.


    Skills

  • 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
  • I have become a certified Azure Administrator and am near completing my solution Architect Expert qualification. I have become proficient in Terraform also attaining the certification for it.


  • How would you rate the training provided during your experience?
  • 5/5

  • 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?
  • I was given a lot of responsibility as I have become the IaC SME on the project we are working on.


  • 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?
  • I received a great deal of support from my colleagues that were in the project, especially from my buddy that I was assigned at the start of my placement.


  • How would you rate the support and guidance from your line manager?
  • 5/5

  • How would you rate the support and guidance from the wider team?
  • 5/5

    Culture

  • 5. What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?
  • Very friendly environment, promoting self development and upskilling yourself in the time that you aren't working on any project work.


  • How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?
  • 5/5

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

  • 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?
  • I really enjoyed my placement!, it was a great opportunity for me exposing me to the world of cloud computing and also giving me the chance to really get stuck into it.


  • 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 CGI
  • 5/5

  • 7. Would you recommend CGI to a friend?
  • Yes


  • 8. What advice would you give to others applying to CGI
  • Prepare for the group interview.


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Details

Placement (10 Months+)

Software Engineering

London

August 2023


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