Graduate Hardware Engineer Review

by BAE Systems

Rating

4.5/5
  • Skills
    4.3
  • Responsibilities
    5.0
  • Support & Guidance
    5.0
  • Culture
    4.3
  • Your Impressions
    4.7

    Overview

  • 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
  • Designing and documenting hardware modifications to systems to achieve functional specifications


    Skills

  • 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
  • taught myself VHDL and learnt how engineering works in a industry setting, also export control, life cycle management etc


  • 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?
  • 4/5

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

  • 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?
  • Was given guidance and my changes will be implemented into real systems so yes


  • 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?
  • I am always able to ask questions from more experience collages and there is a huge range of online or instructor led cursors for a large range of skills


  • 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?
  • Friendly, cooperative and professional, if someone can't help you they'll point you to someone who can


  • How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?
  • 4/5

  • 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?
  • 3/5

    Your Impressions

  • 6. To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?
  • I enjoy it and learn alot each day


  • 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 BAE Systems
  • 5/5

  • 7. Would you recommend BAE Systems to a friend?
  • Yes


  • 8. What advice would you give to others applying to BAE Systems
  • a lot of technical jargon and document to be hit with straight away, a guide of sorts would be helpful however I was able to ask those around me for help which was much better than a document


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Details

Placement (10 Months+)

Engineering

South West

June 2023


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