Industrial Placement Review
by Cummins
Rating
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Skills
3.8
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Responsibilities
4.0
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Support & Guidance
4.0
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Culture
4.0
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Your Impressions
3.0
- 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 Cummins
- 7. Would you recommend Cummins to a friend?
- 8. What advice would you give to others applying to Cummins
Overview
What the placement involves depends on the department you are in. Product-focused roles will have a larger emphasis of working within a larger team conducting verification and validation tasks, including emails and meetings. Experimental project focused roles will involve more independent working with occasional project updates to a larger audience
Skills
Was able to develop coding/application development skills and overall project/time management skills
Responsibilities
Yes. During the first few months you are more heavily supervised to ease you into the business and have closer support should you need it. However, as the placement progresses, you are given more substantial responsibility over your work - for me this included 1) being the only engineer within my department working on my project, 2) was given the opportunity to define how another project should be approached and begin.
Support & Guidance
I would rate the support and guidance highly. Everyone is always willing to help and answer any quires. It is also expected that every employee, not just placements, have regular 1:1 with their managers to discuss not only project progress & any support needed, but also any out-of-work situations if necessary.
Culture
Welcoming and friendly, with regular networking/socialising events. Office can sometimes be quiet with the hybrid nature of the work.
Your Impressions
Nice company to work for. However, the office being located in Huddersfield is certainly brings down the experience. Not the best of places to live
Yes
Do research in accommodation location - stay away from Huddersfield if possible
Details
Placement (10 Months+)
Engineering, Automotive Engineering
Yorkshire and Humberside
June 2023
