Media Software Engineer Intern Review

by NBCUniversal

Best Student Employer

Rating

4.1/5
  • Skills
    4.0
  • Responsibilities
    4.0
  • Support & Guidance
    4.5
  • Culture
    4.3
  • Your Impressions
    3.7

    Overview

  • 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.

    • I worked on a variety of different projects and tasks, from documentation, QA (Quality Assurance), where I do GitHub pull request and code reviews. Azure tasks and ticket management tasks too.

    Skills

  • 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?

    • React, Typescript, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Postman, Jira, GitHub

  • How would you rate the training provided during your experience?

    • 3/5
  • 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?

    • 5/5
  • 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?

    • I was given a lot of responsibility when it came to managing our test automation results, where this was fully managed by myself, and other tasks within my Jira tickets were also my responsibility.

  • 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?

    • People in my team were very useful and always available when needed via teams.

  • 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?

    • 4/5

    Culture

  • 5. What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?

    • Very relaxed atmosphere, everyone was very welcoming and friendly. Very nice and modern office too.

  • 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?

    • 4/5
  • 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?

    • I have enjoyed my placement a lot and has helped me develop the soft skills needed for future software engineering roles such as communication, teamwork, presentation, networking and time management skills.

  • Please rate your level of enjoyment on your placement / internship

    • 4/5
  • Please rate how your experience met your expectations

    • 4/5
  • Please rate the future employment prospects at NBCUniversal

    • 3/5
  • 7. Would you recommend NBCUniversal to a friend?

    • Yes

  • 8. What advice would you give to others applying to NBCUniversal

    • It's a great experience and you will have a great time here, with great people too, making it easy to build relationships and network. It is great to work for a company which is so large and influential in the media and entertainment industry.

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Details

Placement (10 Months+)

Software Engineering

London

May 2024

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