Mobile Engineer Intern Review
by Expedia Group
Rating
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Skills
5.0
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Responsibilities
5.0
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Support & Guidance
5.0
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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 Expedia Group
- 7. Would you recommend Expedia Group to a friend?
- 8. What advice would you give to others applying to Expedia Group
Overview
I am a mobile engineer intern, helping work on features on Expedia's native iOS apps. This involves daily standup meetings where we discuss our progress with the team, and using tools such as Jira to organise our projects and workflow. Most of the day involves working on current tickets, which are tasks derived from current projects in the team. I also often catch up with various team members to discuss ongoing work and potential strategies and fixes to issues. There are also occasional meetings with the team to learn about or present different projects.
Skills
I have acquired many skills from this internship, including hard skills such as new languages, frameworks and technologies including Swift (iOS development), XCode, GraphQL, JSON and Jira. One very important skill I have built on is being able to understand and contribute to large-scale industrial codebases like the company's repositories. I have also acquired many soft skills, such as teamwork in an organisation, communication in an industry-based context, project planning and time-management.
Responsibilities
Yes, I was assigned a task to work on a very key feature in one of the company's apps - the reviews feature. Of course, there was plenty of guidance and support to make sure I understand how the codebase worked and what changes to make.
Support & Guidance
Plenty of support and guidance. There was an initial bootcamp to get interns familiar with the company's way of building software and they tools they used. We also had a navigator to guide us through the entire internship and how to approach the work.
Culture
Amazing! Everyone is very positive and always happy to help with anything. The overall atmosphere is very wam and welcoming and makes it very motivating to work!
Your Impressions
I extremely enjoyed the internship! There is really not much to say about improvements, apart from keeping on doing what they are doing!
Yes
Perhaps learn a bit about the Expedia Group's current initiatives and technologies they are working on. Also, if they know what technologies they will be using e.g. iOS or Android development, then maybe start learning the basics of the programming languages.
Details
Internship (1 Month+)
Software Engineering
London
August 2023
