Rating

4.1/5
  • Skills
    3.8
  • Responsibilities
    3.0
  • Support & Guidance
    5.0
  • Culture
    4.5
  • Your Impressions
    4.0

    Overview

  • 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
  • The role varies depending on the project I am working on at the time. These roles have included undertaking assessments of existing structures, doing calculations and writing reports.


    Skills

  • 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
  • I have developed by engineering skills, learning how what I have learnt at university is applied in real projects. I have developed my communication skills, working in an engineering team and have also learnt to understand the terminology used in this specific part of the industry.


  • 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?
  • 4/5

  • 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 quite a lot of responsibility as I was working on projects in the team and some of the same tasks the graduate and assistant engineers were doing


  • Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was
  • 3/5

    Support & Guidance

  • 4. How much support and guidance did you receive during your placement / internship?
  • I received a lot of support from the whole team, but especially my line manager who I had meetings with every few weeks to discuss my progress


  • 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?
  • Very friendly. Everyone, no matter how high up in the company they were, would talk to the younger engineers and treat them as equals.


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

  • How would you rate the social opportunities?
  • 4/5

  • How would you rate the diversity initiatives?
  • 4/5

  • 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 really enjoyed my placement.


  • 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 Arcadis
  • 4/5

  • 7. Would you recommend Arcadis to a friend?
  • Yes


  • 8. What advice would you give to others applying to Arcadis
  • Make sure you are prepared for the interview and have read the resources provided.


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Details

Placement (10 Months+)

Civil Engineering

Yorkshire and Humberside

June 2024


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