IT Placement Review
by Network Rail
Rating
-
Skills
5.0
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Responsibilities
5.0
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Support & Guidance
4.5
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Culture
4.0
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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 Network Rail
- 7. Would you recommend Network Rail to a friend?
- 8. What advice would you give to others applying to Network Rail
Overview
My first role was in the ‘Performance Testing and Automation’ team as a script programmer for performance testing. Then i joined the Digital Factory Software Development team. This team is responsible for developing apps that are used by railway workers. They follow Agile software development methods therefore in this team I gained an insight on how to work in an agile environment
Skills
Time management Agile Working Compiling Reports Work-life balance Working Remotely
Responsibilities
I was given the opportunity to take full ownership under guidance of a cloud migration project. The aim of this project is to migrate IT products hosted on premises servers to cloud hosting.
Support & Guidance
My mangers were very helpful and helped me fit into the work environment well. they mentored me all the way
Culture
Everyone was very friendly and helpful. very welcoming
Your Impressions
i loved my placement year and i cant wait to go back
Yes
Be yourself in the assessment centre don't try too hard
Details
Placement (10 Months+)
Computer Science
West Midlands
November 2021
