Software Engineering Intern Review

by NatWest Group

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Rating

4.2/5
  • Skills
    4.0
  • Responsibilities
    5.0
  • Support & Guidance
    5.0
  • Culture
    4.5
  • Your Impressions
    3.3

    Overview

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

    • Shadowing different divisions and Working on smaller tasks throughout each division to help develop useful tools and contribute to the larger projects - Gitlab pipelines, bash scripting, AWS + terraform, React JS web dev, Data Analytics, Digital Transformation. Also voluntary projects and opportunities.

    Skills

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

    • Learnt and developed MERN stack, Python, Bash, Figma Prototyping, Planning, AGILE, etc, Team work, collaboration and communication, etc

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

    • 4/5
  • 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?

    • Not at first but on request they were quite receptive and willing to give you how much ever work you are comfortable with.

  • 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?

    • Everyone is welcoming and offered plenty of support all around and can ask questions to anyone

  • 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?

    • As slow or fast paced as you need it to be and very positive as a whole.

  • 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?

    • Definitely an interesting role to me but I still would like to explore more about specialising in exactly what it is that I am doing.

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

    • 3/5
  • Please rate how your experience met your expectations

    • 3/5
  • Please rate the future employment prospects at NatWest Group

    • 4/5
  • 7. Would you recommend NatWest Group to a friend?

    • Yes

  • 8. What advice would you give to others applying to NatWest Group

    • Really emphasise who you are as a person and be willing to learn and ensure your profile fits the available Critical People Capabilities Checker.

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Internship (1 Month+)

Software Engineering, Computer Science

Scotland

July 2024

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