Tech intern in payment monitoring Review
by Barclays
This review was submitted over 4 years ago, so some of the information it contains may no longer be relevant.
Rating
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The Role
4.6
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The Company
4.4
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The Culture
3.9
- 1. To what extent did you enjoy your work placement or internship?
- 2. To what extent did you feel valued by your colleagues?
- 3. To what extent were you given support and guidance by management/your supervisor(s)?
- 4. How busy were you on a daily basis?
- 5. How much responsibility were you given during your placement?
- 6. To what extent did/will the skills you developed, and training you received, assist you in your degree studies and beyond?
- 7. What was the general atmosphere in your office?
- 8. How well organised was the overall work placement or internship set up?
- 9. In terms of personal training and development, to what extent did the company or firm invest in you?
- 10. What were the perks on your work placement?
- 11. How appealing are future employment prospects within the organisation?
- 12. Was there a good social scene amongst any fellow placement students/colleagues?
- 13. What was the cost of living and socialising in the area you worked in?
- 14. What was the Nightlife like in the area you worked?
- 15. Were there many opportunities to get involved in activities outside of work?
The Role
Yeah, you can learn how the project works and how the big company organised agile dev. What's more, there are a lot of charity session for intern, you can pick a piece of jobs to peruse, and learn quite a lot.
In my team, colleagues are nice, and willing to help me handle different obstacles on tech aspect or process of some requirements. After all, they reach the value of Barclays: respect, integrity, service, excellence and stewardship.
Mentioned before, any problems you can share with line manager, your buddy (you will have one when you get the intern) or your mentor (any problems or requirement in company you can get contact with her)
Aha, to be honest, you should find something do by yourself. Like me, due to I am in payment monitoring group, we get touch with sensitive information, so I have no permission to access that data base (if I click some delete button, then booooom!) But I still have to join the development and discuss on the job, So I find some other stuffs like setup for a new big project, and help with network established for Africa project (raspberry pi with 3/4G in Africa to connected with that in UK) to keep me busy.
Not quite sure what the question means, you need to act as a member in Barclays so you need to finish online training to obey rules and act formal, a lot of detail you need to follow.
Learning quite a lot during the net-dev, like ssh, fire wall rules, reverse ssh, hole punching etc. I think they will help.
The Company
Nice, you even have free fruits. Flesh air, nice view.
The session is nice and project is step-by-step, one disappointing stuff is at the beginning of the project, you spend a lot of time to waiting your computer and requirements for some software or permission.
You can learn a lot about the teams and projects, and you can meet with different director and gain their experience. Learn a lot. But it depends on yourself.
Subsidised Canteen
Sports and Social Club
Company Car
Subsidised/Company Gym
Financial Bonus
Company Parties/Events
Staff Sales/Staff Shop
Working from home
Nice
The Culture
Yeah.
Cheap for living except the house renting fee, few house renting in Knutsford, so expensive... After all, much cheaper than London guys hahahahahahaha
Go to bars is a nice choice (I am not that kind of person), play games.
Yeah, sports.
Details
Internship (1 Month+)
South West
August 2018
