Computer Science - Software Placement Review

by Tata Steel

Rating

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

    Overview

  • 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
  • My role involved working on projects to improve or replace existing systems within the company, such as booking systems, dashboard webpages, backends. I was given a list of criteria that should be met and a basic plan and worked on this plan, then built the software, testing it and adding features, while adhering to a methodology. Day to day was spend programming working on this & progress meetings.


    Skills

  • 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
  • I learnt many new skills, from a large range of programming technologies, proper methods for working in a team, such as managing job boards and meetings, with progress reports, as well as large aspects of safety training 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?
  • 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?
  • Yes, I was managing my own project, although was able to access guidance as I required it. This let me develop my skills independantly.


  • 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?
  • Plenty of support and guidance, but no micromanaging


  • 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?
  • One of the best workplace cultures I have ever experienced or heard of, very supportive and understanding managers, etc, realistic work assignments, etc


  • 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?
  • 5/5

    Your Impressions

  • 6. To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?
  • I thoroughly enjoyed my internship as I was able to develop many new skills and get a feel for what my adult life would be like in the future.


  • 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 Tata Steel
  • 5/5

  • 7. Would you recommend Tata Steel to a friend?
  • Yes


  • 8. What advice would you give to others applying to Tata Steel
  • I would ensure you have reserached the company and have maybe a project or two to show off to set yourself apart from the rest. If you are going into software, C# is generally the main language, work on that!


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Details

Placement (10 Months+)

Computer Science

Wales

August 2023


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