Placement Software Developer Review
by Egress
Rating
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Skills
4.8
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Responsibilities
5.0
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Support & Guidance
5.0
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Culture
5.0
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Your Impressions
5.0
- 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
- 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
- How would you rate the training provided during your experience?
- How would you rate your development of industry-specific skills during the experience?
- How would you rate your development of personal / soft skills during the experience?
- Please rate how these skills have helped you in your career development
- 3. Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?
- Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was
- 4. How much support and guidance did you receive during your placement / internship?
- How would you rate the support and guidance from your line manager?
- How would you rate the support and guidance from the wider team?
- 5. What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?
- How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?
- How would you rate the social opportunities?
- How would you rate the diversity initiatives?
- How would you rate the charity, sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives?
- 6. To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?
- Please rate your level of enjoyment on your placement / internship
- Please rate how your experience met your expectations
- Please rate the future employment prospects at Egress
- 7. Would you recommend Egress to a friend?
- 8. What advice would you give to others applying to Egress
Overview
Develop new features and resolve bugs using C#, taking available work from a list that is shared by the whole team and planned out collectively every two weeks Contribute to daily stand-up meetings by summarising work done the previous work day and plans for the rest of the day
Skills
Developed much stronger programming ability and learned new design patterns and philosophies to improve my future work Greater knowledge of Agile methodologies
Responsibilities
Full responsibility for the programming tasks assigned to me, some responsibility for deciding future work practices during research tasks
Support & Guidance
Team planned several training exercises for me to use to learn design practices and general codebase during first months Full freedom to seek assistance whenever necessary from other developers or the team's senior developer
Culture
Very positive - special emphasis made to promote company culture even remotely, peer briefings for any member of staff to present about relevant topics, fortnightly all hands calls to keep everyone informed on the state of the business
Your Impressions
Really enjoyed and hoping to return as a graduate after my degree!
Yes
Showing your knowledge is less important than showing a willingness to learn new concepts
Details
Placement (10 Months+)
Computer Systems Engineering
Yorkshire and Humberside
July 2021
