GCN Engineer Summer Placement Review
by MBDA
Rating
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Skills
3.8
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Responsibilities
5.0
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Support & Guidance
4.0
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Culture
3.0
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Your Impressions
4.0
- 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 MBDA
- 7. Would you recommend MBDA to a friend?
- 8. What advice would you give to others applying to MBDA
Overview
10 week summer internship situated within the GCN department. Day-to-day work included lots of MATLAB programming. Work for the placement involved getting a good overall understanding of key concepts to then be implemented within MATLAB models. Project developed through informal catch ups with my line manager as and when needed.
Skills
Definitely grown MATLAB skills in terms of how many new things I have learnt but also my confidence in using the MATLAB environment as a whole.
Responsibilities
It was definitely expected that I would undertake the work independently as much as possible, without the need for my manager to 'hold my hand'. To be able to debug errors, understanding existing code, draw my own conclusions from plots etc.. with some support from managers and senior engineers as and when needed. It was nice to know the conclusions I would be drawing would eventually impact future development and decisions.
Support & Guidance
Everyone in the office was happy to answer questions when needed, but was expected to have had a good go at solving issues, reading about topics etc in order to develop my own understanding. Manager was great at communicating in where the project was heading and the suitable next steps.
Culture
I would say the department definitely feels split up into much smaller groups who all hang out with each other or interact with each other on a daily basis so that can feel hard to integrate into for just general office chit chat or lunch times. However everyone is very friendly and happy to help and offer guidance where needed.
Your Impressions
The work can be slow at times, but was nice to know there wasn't lots of pressure on to tackle learning new concepts and working on deliverables all at the same time. The work was very interesting and fulfilling to develop new skills and grow in confidence, all other summer interns were so lovely and we all got on so well together.
Yes
Be willing to try something new and push yourself to persevere, it is the best way to learn. Similarly if you're getting stuck after trying, don't be afraid to ask for help. Make the most of the cheap lunch! And make sure to spend time with other interns, it is such a nice environment amongst everyone.
Details
Internship (1 Month+)
Engineering
South West
August 2024
