Technology Placement Student Review
by IBM
Rating
-
Skills
3.3
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Responsibilities
2.0
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Support & Guidance
5.0
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Culture
5.0
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Your Impressions
2.3
- 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 IBM
- 7. Would you recommend IBM to a friend?
- 8. What advice would you give to others applying to IBM
Overview
Working within a product team providing data analysis and competitive analysis reports. Mainly my role had a lot of freedom to study around areas that could benefit the product- such as machine learning along with ample opportunity to learn skills in the product through shadowing and building samples along with the opportunity to pursue business and finance knowledge in the context of a software product.
Skills
Yes- massively improved my communication skills and confidence, learnt substantively about software business functionality and processes, further developed proficiency in Java, Linux and Python. But only given 3 stars as although the quality of the teaching I got was excellent, it was spread thin and a lot of the time I was left to myself with no collaborative work. Self study time is great but getting properly involved is so much more useful.
Responsibilities
In some cases yes, for instance I produced technical reports that are used by sellers and analysis that was acted on by senior team members. But again this was spread thin and a lot of the time I didn't feel I was contributing much.. although I was learning a lot.
Support & Guidance
Plenty, some of the nicest and most inspiring people I've met. Brilliant program for mentorship within the company and lots of advice around work life balance as well as good spaces for downtime within the offices like games and sports and the bar etc
Culture
Excellent, very understanding and supporting, they believe in you and want to help push you.
Your Impressions
I enjoyed the people and learning as much as I could, but I struggled to enjoy the day to day as I felt my work wasn't really meaningful nor was it particularly stimulating or challenging.
Yes
I can't really advise
Details
Placement (10 Months+)
Information Technology
South East
May 2024
