Placement Student Review

by Caterpillar

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Rating

3.2/5
  • The Role
    4.2
  • The Company
    2.5
  • The Culture
    2.5

    The Role

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

    • Really enjoyed it lots of friendly people and interesting work. Split into two 6 month placements so I was able to experience more of the business.

    4/5
  • 2. To what extent did you feel valued by your colleagues?

    • Everyone was very friendly and I didn't have any troubles getting along with people. Though as a disclaimer this is a 'engineers' level of friendliness so although I fit right in only ever really talking about real scenarios or events, I know that some of my humanities friends would think that some of the people in the offices that I worked in where abit quiet or on the flip side sometimes a little abrasive. As ever once you get to know people there are never any problems

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

    • Given plenty of support and had both a team manager and a placement manager so had more than enough people to talk to. This didn't stop my lack of knowledge though so I still (and I think everyone does) had a month or two of learning before I started doing things that mattered.

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

    • At the start as I was still learning I wasn't that busy. However by the last 2 months of my first placement I had gotten a large project with a lot of responsibility and so was constantly juggling tasks and days would pass very quickly. However I've not got less interesting things to be getting on with and I definitely wish that I was as stuck in as I was on my first 6 months

    4/5
  • 5. How much responsibility were you given during your placement?

    • As ever depends on what your working on, who your manager is and whether you've proven yourself to be reliable.

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

    • Definitely incredibly helpful at giving me an appreciation of what life working as an engineer is like and I know that the real world examples that I can take back to my studies next year will be very useful. I have formed the belief that you don't actually learn any engineering at university, University is just for theory so that you can talk to other engineers, it requires a job with focussed tasks and the solutions to the problems that those tasks generate are where you actually start learning engineering

    5/5

    The Company

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

    • 3/5
  • 8. How well organised was the overall work placement or internship set up?

    • 3/5
  • 9. In terms of personal training and development, to what extent did the company or firm invest in you?

    • 3/5
  • 10. What were the perks on your work placement?

    • 3/5
  • 11. How appealing are future employment prospects within the organisation?

    • 3/5

    The Culture

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

    • 3/5
  • 13. What was the cost of living and socialising in the area you worked in?

    • 3/5
  • 14. What was the Nightlife like in the area you worked?

    • 3/5
  • 15. Were there many opportunities to get involved in activities outside of work?

    • 3/5
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Placement (10 Months+)

East Midlands

April 2017

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