IT Delivery Intern Review

I have enjoyed my internship at BMW a lot, but most important, I've learned a lot. Much more than I've imagined I would.

Most of my collegues were really helpfull throughout the placement.

I was givent a chance to work by myself, by self managing my work, but if there was a need my manager was always there to help me.

Most of the times I had projects running thus had work to do. Sometimes these projects had short deadlines, thus required more time and focus on them, others had less, I could focus on meetings and special office events.

I think we as interns here are givent quite a big amount of responsibility. We're being treated as regular employes and I think this is a good practice.

Skills I've developed are already showing. I am now much better in programming than I was before I got here.

The atmosphere in the office was really nice. While I was here we had an office renovation, got new dedsks, new innovation room. Overall, peaople were friendly, we could make jokes, have friendly chat and focus on work at the same time.

My placement was a bit different from other students. I had innovation position thus every innovation topic that rose up was my next possible topic. Knowing this, it could not have been planned well. However, I believe that this is even better represesnting real life situations, because in real life you cannot always plan things throuh.

I have had a couple of trainings (Agile training, and other office related trainings). Also, I was also guided by my collegues and helped by.

Verry much appealing! If there would be a chance for me to join the company full time, I don't think I would think about it for long. I believe that this company is great to work at, offers great possibilities and benefits. I enjoy people working here and the type of work.

We had intern social gatherings every week and a newsletter to reflect them. In addition, sometimes extra intern events were planned and carried out. However, I felt that because the meetings were mainly attended by German speaking interns, English speaking students tend to miss out on these events because of language problem. There should be a rule applied in these events to speak English (at least more than now).

Since we live in Oxford, the cost of living is quite high. Of course, the company cannot do anything about it. It's just the way it is. On the other hand, groceries and going out related spendings are really good. Quite cheap even I would say.

Oxford has many many pubs withing walking distance. These are great to experience English quisine and drinks. I also much preffer them before clubs (which there are not so many of), because you can chat with people while having a nice pint of ale and a nice, fresh, hand made burger.

There were many gyms and other sports related activities near by. We have played squash for quite a few times, tennis, went to swimming pool, etc. Of course, most of these will require a short walk or a bus ride depending where you stay at.