Amazon Discover: Spring Insight Participant Review

by Amazon

Rating

5/5
  • Skills
    5.0
  • Responsibilities
    5.0
  • Support & Guidance
    5.0
  • Culture
    5.0
  • Your Impressions
    5.0

    Overview

  • 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.

    • 3 full schedule days with online informative sessions about tge amazon company, their leadership principles, with real employees sharing experiences, thoughs and insights for a better future applicant, including interviews and online assessments Also half of the time was in practical small group labs with a mentor wh ich helped each of us with practical codind exercices and personalized tips and improvements for industry. Lots of on demand practices learned from listening and getting involved in the hands on programming sessions

    Skills

  • 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?

    • Yes, developed current ones, learned to highlight them and got hints on how to use them for success

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

    • 5/5
  • 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?

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

    • 5/5

    Responsibilities

  • 3. Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?

    • No responsability, but I've been involved and asked to work towards resolving small coding tasks

  • 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?

    • First of all, the mentor was really helful and nice and patiently guided all of us for better eventual responses in future interviews and assessments, at least for the amazon team. As for the large session, all the guests had meaningful thoughts and experiences and advices to share. Those also included lots of questions and answers where every question was answered carefully and I really feel that everyone left more confident about their next steps in their career, hopefully at amazon!

  • 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?

    • Everyone was really nice, energy overall 10/10, made me more curious in applying to work in that environment.

  • How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?

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

    • 5/5
  • 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?

    • To the maximum extent that one could enjoy an online event :)

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

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

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

    • 5/5
  • 7. Would you recommend Amazon to a friend?

    • Yes

  • 8. What advice would you give to others applying to Amazon

    • Just be serious about your time. It is really useful but belive when they tell you that u need ypir entire day dedicated to this. As long as you are active in the small group lab sessions and listen to the feedback, you will find this opportunity amazing, especially for the insights it gives and the eventual next stepts u get that for sure make you fell less lost. In conclusion just pay attention and be involved, it is worth it!

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Details

Internship (1 Month+)

Computer Science

London

April 2022

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