Summer Placement Student Review

by Mott MacDonald

Rating

3.8/5
  • Skills
    3.5
  • Responsibilities
    4.0
  • Support & Guidance
    3.0
  • Culture
    4.5
  • Your Impressions
    3.7

    Overview

  • 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
  • Communicating with other teams and making engineering decision to ensure safety and standard in design, mainly HS2 for this placement. Use of software and spreadsheet for engineer models.


    Skills

  • 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
  • Software and communication, such as informed questions and presentation in team meetings.


  • 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?
  • 3/5

  • How would you rate your development of personal / soft skills during the experience?
  • 3/5

  • Please rate how these skills have helped you in your career development
  • 4/5

    Responsibilities

  • 3. Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?
  • I was put in charge of an asset and allowed to supervise it from beginning to end (with the normal checking by others).


  • Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was
  • 4/5

    Support & Guidance

  • 4. How much support and guidance did you receive during your placement / internship?
  • Little from Line Manager as they were busy or not assigned. Other members of team were very good and so was my assigned buddy. Presentation put on from summer placement students were extremely good + interesting.


  • How would you rate the support and guidance from your line manager?
  • 2/5

  • 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?
  • Very good, in office and out-of-office. Communication inside and between teams is good.


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

  • How would you rate the social opportunities?
  • 3/5

  • 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?
  • It was fairly good, not much more to add.


  • Please rate your level of enjoyment on your placement / internship
  • 3/5

  • Please rate how your experience met your expectations
  • 4/5

  • Please rate the future employment prospects at Mott MacDonald
  • 4/5

  • 7. Would you recommend Mott MacDonald to a friend?
  • Yes


  • 8. What advice would you give to others applying to Mott MacDonald
  • Try to push hard to get access to IT and work assignments.


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Details

Internship (1 Month+)

Civil Engineering

South East

August 2023


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