Software Engineering Intern Review

by J.P. Morgan

Rating

4.9/5
  • Skills
    5.0
  • Responsibilities
    4.0
  • Support & Guidance
    5.0
  • Culture
    4.8
  • Your Impressions
    5.0

    Overview

  • 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
  • Worked in the public cloud team, for the internship developed stand-alone project that would help our team. Worked on creating application that would streamline our teams work for the 10 weeks I was here. Day consisted of standups, blocks of coding throughout the day, shadowing and having meetings arranged by recruitment team or team I worked in.


    Skills

  • 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
  • Learnt about CI/CD pipeline work, terraform code, cloud and deploying to cloud for technicality. Major skill improvement/ honed was project management, ensuring worked in parallel with team and not against. Soft skills such as presenting and shadowing productively were also something I learnt throughout.


  • 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?
  • 5/5

  • 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?
  • Compared to the work my team did, project was stand-alone. However daily standups insured we were kept on track and motivated to complete the work. The responsibility meant meeting stakeholders often, to streamline our project work and ensure features are always being implemented.


  • Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was
  • 4/5

    Support & Guidance

  • 4. How much support and guidance did you receive during your placement / internship?
  • Guidance was plenty from the team and wider team. Everyone was approachable and willing to leave their work to help. Something that stands out, a particular technical issue meant reaching out to someone from America, they messaged straight away and setup a meeting without hesitation.


  • 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?
  • Had multiple events throughout the internship as well as multitude of networking and speaker events. This highlighted the collaborative culture at JPM as well as hearing from seniors meant learning from their wisdom and the mistakes they made along the way


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

  • 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?
  • 4/5

    Your Impressions

  • 6. To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?
  • Had a great time, learnt alot. Came into work everyday looking forward to learning something new.


  • 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 J.P. Morgan
  • 5/5

  • 7. Would you recommend J.P. Morgan to a friend?
  • Yes


  • 8. What advice would you give to others applying to J.P. Morgan
  • Practice leetcode and learn to socialise well with peers and seniors. Learn from every opportunity you can get.


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Details

Internship (1 Month+)

Software Engineering

Scotland

August 2023


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