Technology Internship Review
by American Express
Rating
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Skills
4.8
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Responsibilities
5.0
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Support & Guidance
5.0
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Culture
5.0
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Your Impressions
5.0
- 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 American Express
- 7. Would you recommend American Express to a friend?
- 8. What advice would you give to others applying to American Express
Overview
Typical day to day work involves morning team meeting and then assignment of Github issues. In my case, my role was in developer experience and therefore I got to develop CLI tools in Go and do some cloud engineering.
Skills
Learnt Golang, worked on cloud engineering which I had never done before. Developed Github Ci pipeline programming skills.
Responsibilities
Almost full responsibility, but never made to feel like I couldn't make mistakes. The team let me work alongside other interns on our own project which was still relevant to what the team as a whole was working on.
Support & Guidance
A lot. Everyone, including my manager's manager's manager was available for a one to one call where we could discuss any topic.
Culture
Amazing, very understanding work culture and the people are very friendly and approachable.
Your Impressions
Fully enjoyed it
Yes
Focus on presenting yourself as someone willing to learn and develop their skills.
Details
Internship (1 Month+)
Software Engineering
London
August 2024
