Business Technology Intern Review
by Discover Financial Services
Rating
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Skills
4.5
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Responsibilities
4.0
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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 Discover Financial Services
- 7. Would you recommend Discover Financial Services to a friend?
- 8. What advice would you give to others applying to Discover Financial Services
Overview
The job mostly involved learning new technologies and applying them in practice, we had daily meetings within the team and other UK and US interns.
Skills
I have improved both soft (communication, teamwork) and technical skills (JavaScript, React.js, SQL,...)
Responsibilities
We were given full responsibility for delivering results and had people to contact in case we needed help or got stuck. Everyone was helpful when we needed help.
Support & Guidance
The guidance was good, we were given a lot of freedom to explore whatever technology we wanted to learn about. In case we had questions, someone could always help/provide further guidance.
Culture
Since the company is US-based, there was quite a big difference between the UK and US culture, however, the atmosphere was very relaxed and the culture seemed to be nice.
Your Impressions
I enjoyed the internship quite a lot, although there was sometimes chaos, which is inevitable when there were 2 teams full of interns who are supposed to work together.
Yes
The coding challenge was not that bad, I think the company focuses a lot on the behaviour interviews where managers get to know more about you.
Details
Internship (1 Month+)
Computer Science
East of England
October 2021
