Technical Industrial Placement Review

Working as a software developer in an Agile Scrum team. Work can vary from week to week due to the nature of Agile and picking up different pieces of work to do. This ranged from development, to testing, to writing up designs for future work. I was working on a web-based application, with the frontend in Angular Typescript, and the backend APIs in Java.

Learnt a lot more about web development, and lots of good experience with how a Scrum team should be run in terms of maximising collaboration and parallelisation between members. Good professional experience was gained too, by being able to demo pieces of work to the customers and being hands-on with them, rather than being more hidden away.

I was treated exactly the same as any other developer on the project. I was given the opportunity to present and demo pieces of new functionality to the customers over Teams calls, and my voice was heard if I ever had concerns during planning meetings with my team on what work to do next. I also was consistently providing meaningful work which unblocked future bits of work for me or my team to get started with.

Whenever I needed guidance/help it was always easily accessible. Whether from managers or just my peers, all I had to do was drop someone a message or an email

Relaxed and inclusive company culture. I never really felt like there was much pressure on me if things ran over a deadline, and was always provided help if I needed it. From the moment I properly got started on the project I was treated as an equal to my peer developers, and I could easily have a chat with any of them or any of my managers

Thoroughly enjoyed

Yes

To put my email down as a referee so that I could get a bonus from CGI. Other than that, I'm not sure what specific advice I would give to anyone to apply to CGI. It would just be more generic advice you could apply to any job applications. i.e. be confident in yourself and your abilities and be honest