IT Analyst (Software Engineer) Review

by Motability Operations

Rating

4.6/5
  • Skills
    4.5
  • Responsibilities
    5.0
  • Support & Guidance
    4.5
  • Culture
    4.5
  • Your Impressions
    5.0

    Overview

  • 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
  • This is a software role in an agile environment. The role is full-stack development including Javascript (Typescript) / React for the front-end and Java for the backend.


    Skills

  • 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
  • This placement provided some of the most valuable development of my entire time at university. I learned almost all of the information I now consider to be vital to my job.


  • 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?
  • 3/5

  • 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?
  • I was given the full responsibility of a software engineer, participating as a regular member of the team.


  • 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?
  • The company were excellent at providing support. They promote an excellent culture of personal growth, even for their non-placement employees. A large part of this comes from a core working pattern of pair-programming, encouraging everybody to ask questions of each other through-out the work day.


  • How would you rate the support and guidance from your line manager?
  • 4/5

  • 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?
  • The company culture was broadly very positive, and people were very welcoming. I fulfilled this placement entirely remotely due to Covid, and I do feel that this impacted my ability to get to know my colleagues.


  • How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?
  • 5/5

  • How would you rate the social opportunities?
  • 3/5

  • 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?
  • ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️


  • 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 Motability Operations
  • 5/5

  • 7. Would you recommend Motability Operations to a friend?
  • Yes


  • 8. What advice would you give to others applying to Motability Operations
  • This is an excellent place to get experience in modern corporate software engineering practices.


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Details

Placement (10 Months+)

Software Engineering

London

October 2022


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