Futures Intern Review
by IBM
Rating
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Skills
4.0
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Responsibilities
5.0
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Support & Guidance
4.0
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Culture
4.5
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Your Impressions
4.3
- 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
PMO on an NHS project - on a day to day basis I attend certain daily meetings e.g two daily standups, some meetings on a weekly basis e.g. project delivery status and timesheet review, and complete certain structured tasks such as onboarding of new starters to the project, offboarding leavers, data security and privacy controls, and account comms, as well as handling ad-hoc requests and responsibilities
Skills
I've developed a vast range of new skills from my time at IBM, such as learning to work with agile practices, excel skills, presentation and communication skills, I've learnt industry specific knowledge about healthcare, I have developed my teamwork skills, and learnt to use many tools such as mural, confluence, jira and more.
Responsibilities
I was given a lot of responsibility in my internship due to being in a billable client facing role
Support & Guidance
Support was available to me where needed however I would have to reach out for it rather than be given it while being set tasks. It took me some time to be comfortable asking my managers all my questions
Culture
The company culture at IBM is great! A big emphasis is placed on its people and on my project we had a people champion and a squad dedicating to ensuring team members' wellbeing. IBM as a whole has a culture of nurturing its staff in personal and proffessional development, and recognising achievement as much as possible, as well as running team days and many events outside of your day to day job to get involved with.
Your Impressions
I really enjoyed my internship with IBM
Yes
Keep an open mind about job roles as there is a massive range, many of which you may have never heard of before. The success of your placement is up to you - you have to go out and find the opportunities you want to get involved with within the company if you want to make the most of your time.
Details
Placement (10 Months+)
Project Management
London
May 2023
