Design Placement Student Review

by Cummins

Rating

4/5
  • Skills
    3.5
  • Responsibilities
    5.0
  • Support & Guidance
    5.0
  • Culture
    4.0
  • Your Impressions
    3.7

    Overview

  • 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
  • Worked within the design team to develop and validate a variety of exhaust and aftertreatment systems, majority of my time was spent working within validation organizing various testing activities and compiling reports.


    Skills

  • 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
  • Analyzing large data sets using MatLab and Excel Exposure to the design management process


  • How would you rate the training provided during your experience?
  • 3/5

  • How would you rate your development of industry-specific skills during the experience?
  • 5/5

  • How would you rate your development of personal / soft skills during the experience?
  • 3/5

  • Please rate how these skills have helped you in your career development
  • 3/5

    Responsibilities

  • 3. Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?
  • Working from home necessitated autonomous working and thus I was quickly given large amounts of responsibility


  • Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was
  • 5/5

    Support & Guidance

  • 4. How much support and guidance did you receive during your placement / internship?
  • The design team were very welcoming and always happy to help


  • How would you rate the support and guidance from your line manager?
  • 5/5

  • How would you rate the support and guidance from the wider team?
  • 5/5

    Culture

  • 5. What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?
  • This is difficult to answer as the entirety of the placement was done working from home


  • How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?
  • 5/5

  • How would you rate the social opportunities?
  • 1/5

  • How would you rate the diversity initiatives?
  • 5/5

  • How would you rate the charity, sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives?
  • 5/5

    Your Impressions

  • 6. To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?
  • The placement was very enjoyable due to the verity of projects I was able to work on. No two days were the same


  • Please rate your level of enjoyment on your placement / internship
  • 4/5

  • Please rate how your experience met your expectations
  • 2/5

  • Please rate the future employment prospects at Cummins
  • 5/5

  • 7. Would you recommend Cummins to a friend?
  • Yes


  • 8. What advice would you give to others applying to Cummins
  • Cummins mainly look for individuals that will be a good fit for whichever team they will be joining so it is important you be our self during the application process.


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Details

Placement (10 Months+)

Engineering

East of England

June 2021


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