Student Engineer Review

by Arcadis

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.

    • Working with other interns and mentors on an internal bridge design competition (roughly 50% of time) Working with an engineer on tasks for real engineering projects, which could mean a variety of things from modelling, reading legislation, performing stress calculations using excel etc.

    Skills

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

    • Yes, I have learned to use a lot of new software including MIDAS, google sketchup and TEDDs.

  • 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?

    • Some responsibility, there was always someone on hand to help with any problems that I had but it was basically up to me to make sure I did things correctly and on time.

  • 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?

    • Lots, my line manager worked right next to me so I was able to ask him about anything at all and he was happy to help me out,

  • 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?

    • Lovely, I was working in a fairly small team which was very close knit, I also got the opportunity to talk to people in the office from other teams and they were all very welcoming and interesting to speak with.

  • 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 enjoyed it very much, great balance between having enough work to keep me busy and not constantly worrying about meeting deadlines. The work was rewarding and not too repetitive so I wouldn't really say there was anything that I disliked.

  • 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 Arcadis

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

    • Yes

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

    • Talk to as many people as possible, you will be surprised at how different everyone's job is. Be open with what you do and don't understand because it's a great opportunity to fill gaps in your knowledge.

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Details

Internship (1 Month+)

Civil Engineering

Yorkshire and Humberside

September 2023

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