Undergraduate Systems Engineer Review

by MBDA

Rating

4.8/5
  • Skills
    4.8
  • Responsibilities
    5.0
  • Support & Guidance
    5.0
  • 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.
  • Systems engineer - day to day involves various software and hardware based tasks, primarily in my role this was coding and document writing, has also included design tasks, involvement in meetings and development of soft skills such as management, communication and productivity


    Skills

  • 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
  • Coding Communication Time management Design Planning Testing Development tracking skills


  • 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?
  • 4/5

  • 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?
  • yes - felt like I was responsible for large parts of development which allowed me to take on tasks as my own, also helped develop my level of communication further to keep team members up to speed with what was going on in my project.


  • 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?
  • Frequent communications with my manager as well as with other members of my team, felt like I had a lot of guidance and help with what the correct way forward in my own project was and helped me feel confident in what I was doing


  • 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?
  • Cares a lot about the individual employee, felt like I was encouraged to get my work done but also to not overwork in the week, very supportive of when things went wrong and how those mistakes could be solved


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

  • How would you rate the social opportunities?
  • 4/5

  • How would you rate the diversity initiatives?
  • 5/5

  • How would you rate the charity, sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives?
  • 4/5

    Your Impressions

  • 6. To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?
  • Enjoyed this placement very much and would highly consider returning to this company once my degree is fulfilled


  • 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 MBDA
  • 5/5

  • 7. Would you recommend MBDA to a friend?
  • Yes


  • 8. What advice would you give to others applying to MBDA
  • Take an interest in the company and its services, learn what its values are and how you can fit into its structure but also what you can bring to the company as it is interested in you as an individual.


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Details

Placement (10 Months+)

Engineering

South East

June 2023


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