Summer Intern - FTS Review

by PwC

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Rating

3.4/5
  • The Role
    3.8
  • The Company
    3.2
  • The Culture
    3.0

    The Role

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

    • A few weeks in once you started getting more work the internship got a lot more enjoyable. Would probably be better if there was some initial stuff to do planned for those first few weeks

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

    • Feel like i actually made a contribution to the projects i worked on

    4/5
  • 3. To what extent were you given support and guidance by management/your supervisor(s)?

    • Given a lot of support by managers and supervisors as well as others in the office. Always happy to give advice and feedback and lots of help especially when dealing with something new

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

    • Once I was a few weeks in I basically always had something to do thanks to getting access to some general work that the team worked on whenever they had free time

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

    • A good amount of what I did was directly for a client and this gave a feeling of responsibility.

    4/5
  • 6. To what extent did/will the skills you developed, and training you received, assist you in your degree studies and beyond?

    • While the software I was largely using was more specific to this area of work and isnt something relevant for use in uni some of the skills i picked up working in google scripts will likely benefit me when i go back to working with other coding langauges

    3/5

    The Company

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

    • Office had a really great atmosphere. Really felt like you could approach anyone if you knew they had experience in the area you needed help with. Extremely friendly bunch of people

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

    • There wasnt initially much for us to do and therefore it took a few weeks before we started getting work as the teams we were put with started to use us more

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

    • Had number of different training workshops on various bits of software. Probably got the most personal development through my work with google scripts but that was more of a time investment with being allowed enough time to get to grips with things

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

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

    • Seems they hire a lot of people and allow movement between different areas of work within reason

    3/5

    The Culture

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

    • Got to know the other interns very well and some of the colleagues quite well. Quite a few work organised events which was a decent social scene but organised our own events outside of this

    4/5
  • 13. What was the cost of living and socialising in the area you worked in?

    • Belfast is a relatively cheap city to live and work in

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

    • Belfast nightlife is okay. Decent selection of pubs and clubs

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

    • There were a few opportunities for this though not many

    3/5
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Internship (1 Month+)

Information Technology

Northern Ireland

September 2019

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