Placement Student Review

by National Grid

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Rating

4.2/5
  • The Role
    4.4
  • The Company
    4.1
  • The Culture
    4.1

    The Role

  • 1. To what extent did you enjoy your work placement or internship?

    • Placement was very enjoyable! Could not have asked to work in a more welcoming and interesting environment.

    5/5
  • 2. To what extent did you feel valued by your colleagues?

    • Everybody in the office was very welcoming and took time to speak to us. Despite being there for only 8 weeks we were treated as any other team member might be.

    5/5
  • 3. To what extent were you given support and guidance by management/your supervisor(s)?

    • Managment were very helpful and always gald to answer any questions we might have. Initially it did feel a little as though we had been thrown straight in at the deep end and were just just number crunching meaningless data. It would have been nice to have had a more sufficient explanation of what these numbers represented in real world terms at project start. Really a time constraint issue in that we had to start working with the data right away in order to finish on schedule.

    4/5
  • 4. How busy were you on a daily basis?

    • Very! Continually manipulating numbers in an attmept to improve the model.

    5/5
  • 5. How much responsibility were you given during your placement?

    • We were given a lot of responsibility during the placement and we were certainly made to feel what we were working on was valuable to National Grid.

    5/5
  • 6. To what extent did/will the skills you developed, and training you received, assist you in your degree studies and beyond?

    • The work we were doing was really data analysis and not particularly related to our engineering degrees. However, whilst there was not so much gained in terms of engineering knowledge, new skills were gained in terms of software manipulation and working with large data sets - something I would not normally have the oppurtunity to work on. I was made much more aware of the importance of presentation skills and feel mine are now improved.

    4/5

    The Company

  • 7. What was the general atmosphere in your office?

    • Everyone seemed very friendly and approachable.

    4/5
  • 8. How well organised was the overall work placement or internship set up?

    • 5/5
  • 9. In terms of personal training and development, to what extent did the company or firm invest in you?

    • Felt the company went out of its way to make sure we had interesting activities to do. The seminar hosted by national grid was excellent. More relevant trips to the project would have been nice as our particular group went on none!

    4/5
  • 10. What were the perks on your work placement?

    • 4/5
  • 11. How appealing are future employment prospects within the organisation?

    • Graduate scheme looks excellent ad there were plenty of graduate students to ask questions to.

    4/5

    The Culture

  • 12. Was there a good social scene amongst any fellow placement students/colleagues?

    • Social dynamic amongst fellow students was excellent!

    5/5
  • 13. What was the cost of living and socialising in the area you worked in?

    • 4/5
  • 14. What was the Nightlife like in the area you worked?

    • 4/5
  • 15. Were there many opportunities to get involved in activities outside of work?

    • 4/5
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Details

Internship (1 Month+)

Engineering

International

September 2009

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