Technology analyst Review

I really enjoyed my internship because the work that I was given was very interesting. I was given good support from my manager and the workload was ideal.

I felt valued by colleagues. They were willing to support me whenever I felt stuck and always pointed me to right resources for more help.

My manager was fantastic. He was really calm and gave me work according to my abilities. He gave me a lot of support through 1 to 1 meetings weekly. He never made me feel pressured. I felt relaxed even when I was struggling because I new he would help me.

I was perfectly busy. I always had work to do. I always felt that I was up against the clock. It was never just sitting around being bored with nothing to do. Also, despite feeling busy, it was not "stressful" levels of busy. It was ideal for me. I only stayed late once or twice during the entire internship.

I was given a task and allowed to explore ways to approach the task. So I had to be responsible for that. However, I still had to validate my approach with manager to make sure that I was doing the right things. Overall, I was not given too much responsibility but just enough to make me feel independent.

I feel the skills I have developed in terms of software development and programming will help me a lot in my computer science degree and career beyond. Specifically things like agile methodology, continuous integration and deployment, source version control, unit testing, mocking etc.

It is generally good. However, it did feel that different teams were kind of isolated and you only ever interacted with your team.

It was well organized. I felt I received enough information and support before and during the internship. The networking events, talks etc were well dispersed throughout the internship.

There were 2 types of trainings - compulsory training which was online and about things like anti-corruption, GDPR, compliance etc. And there was technical training which was not compulsory. A lot of resources were available and we were allowed to choose what we want to learn.

It seems the company is expanding and there is a lot of demand for technology people within the organisation. However certain locations like London have a lot of competition.

Yes. We met with each other very often during lunch time. A lot of students went out during weekends. It was good.

The costs in Bournemouth were higher than the city I am from (Southampton). But I still liked Bournemouth during the summer.

Not sure.

Yes. There are these groups called BRGs where you can get involved with things like diversity, inclusion, women participation in tech etc. There are a lot of sports groups including football, cricket, badminton etc.