Summer Intern Software Engineer Review
by BAE Systems
Rating
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Skills
4.5
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Responsibilities
4.0
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Support & Guidance
5.0
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Culture
4.8
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Your Impressions
4.7
- 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 BAE Systems
- 7. Would you recommend BAE Systems to a friend?
- 8. What advice would you give to others applying to BAE Systems
Overview
- Attending organisation meetings, either every day (standup) or weekly, as required - Developing application software as part of a larger team - Working on testing, using automated or manual (fun) ways.
Skills
- Hard skills like C#, Design Patterns, Atlassian suite, PostGres - Soft skills like organisation, and how to work within an actual software team
Responsibilities
Often depends on the team, I was given a bigger role on my own projects but this was only after a few weeks working there. It felt like it depended on the work going around that team and who your manager was.
Support & Guidance
- Weekly meetings with the early careers leader to go over any cohort issues (e.g. safety) and to ask individual questions - Access to internal learning platforms, including Linkedin Learning - My manager was very approachable, but again this could change depending how busy they are. I did hear a few horror stories of interns being left out to dry, but often they found another intern or coworker to lean on.
Culture
- Everybody was very chilled out while also trying to get the job done - Watching some of the things going on the site was pretty cool. - Our cohort was amazing, everybody got on well and we were going out every Friday, Saturday night. I'm not sure how other cohorts were - Some teams were 100% remote however, and I felt these people missed out on part of the experience
Your Impressions
Once my internship got going, I enjoyed the work I was given and would say overall it was a good experience. However, due to company bureaucracy it took a couple weeks to get there. For such a large company, the experience can be quite variable. Year placement students can change departments every three months if they don't like it.
Yes
- Do your research, *some* interviewers are good at catching people out if they mention certain products (*cough* tempest) without prior research. It can make your interview super awkward - Know how to answer competency based questions like the back of your hand. Write out some experiences to refer to during the interview. Your interview is likely to be 99% competency questions. - Technical questions are typically trivia around the subject you're studying. - Apply sooner rather than later, the company is hiring like mad currently but I'm not sure how long this could last.
Details
Internship (1 Month+)
Computer Science
North West
November 2022
