Design Intern Review
by IBM
Rating
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Skills
4.8
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Responsibilities
4.0
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Support & Guidance
4.5
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Culture
3.8
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Your Impressions
4.0
- 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 IBM
- 7. Would you recommend IBM to a friend?
- 8. What advice would you give to others applying to IBM
Overview
My role is a design consultant, working on delivering projects for different clients. Some day to day tasks include: • Generating user flows • Low to high fidelity wireframing • Conducting user research • Playbacks with senior stakeholders & clients • Identifying pain points & creating to-be maps • Imagining personas • Work with visual designers to bring designs to life and create design systems
Skills
I have developed a variety of soft and hard skills over this year. Hard skills include: - Wireframing - Basic front end developing - Using a design system Soft skills include: - Communication - Presentation - Time-management
Responsibilities
I was given a lot of responsibility in my year - I had the opportunity to directly work on deliverables that were being sent to the client or being developed. I often got the chance to present my work to the clients and get their feedback. I always felt like an essential part of the design team.
Support & Guidance
I was given a lot of support throughout my year - not only from my task manager but was also given a foundation manager to help me set goals and make sure that I was learning and training throughout the year. The foundation manager ensured I was doing good in terms of pastoral care and task manager made sure I was working on meaningful projects.
Culture
As a whole - the culture in the subsection of IBM I worked for, iX, is really lovely. Everyone is very supportive and always happy to help you grow if you are willing to learn. People are lovely and always happy to have a chat, the atmosphere makes working here really fun.
Your Impressions
I had a really good time this year, made some good friends and had the chance to learn from so many talented designer. I really enjoyed myself and feel very lucky to have worked with so many interesting and cool clients.
Yes
As a designer applying to IBM, my biggest advice would be to focus on the process. Make sure you talk about how you get to your design decision and show your thinking behind it. For a non-designer, I would advise you to be honestly yourself as that is what they want to see - they love to work in teams full of diverse personalities.
Details
Placement (10 Months+)
London
July 2022
