Structural Engineering Intern Review

by Buro Happold

Rating

4.4/5
  • Skills
    3.8
  • Responsibilities
    3.0
  • Support & Guidance
    5.0
  • Culture
    5.0
  • Your Impressions
    4.3

    Overview

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

    • Working on interesting projects with different members of the team. Putting uni work into practice.

    Skills

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

    • Developed existing skills from university in structural hand analysis with much harder structural set ups. Have been pushed to complete hand analysis the model the structure virtually in software such as Robot or Tekla.

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

    • 4/5
  • How would you rate your development of industry-specific skills during the experience?

    • 4/5
  • How would you rate your development of personal / soft skills during the experience?

    • 3/5
  • Please rate how these skills have helped you in your career development

    • 4/5

    Responsibilities

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

    • An expected amount - nothing relies on you but that is to be expected and allows you to really focus on understanding and getting things right, instead of if you had to rush tasks out to meet deadlines.

  • Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was

    • 3/5

    Support & Guidance

  • 4. How much support and guidance did you receive during your placement / internship?

    • Support when required. However, could be difficult to get a hold of people as often in meetings.

  • 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 really nice and wanted to make sure you understood.

  • 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?

    • Really enjoying it so far.

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

    • 4/5
  • Please rate how your experience met your expectations

    • 5/5
  • Please rate the future employment prospects at Buro Happold

    • 4/5
  • 7. Would you recommend Buro Happold to a friend?

    • Yes

  • 8. What advice would you give to others applying to Buro Happold

    • If you're interested in what you're applying for you shouldn't need to worry.

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Details

Internship (1 Month+)

Civil Engineering

North West

August 2022

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