Technology Intern Review

by Capital One

Best Student Employer

Rating

4.9/5
  • Skills
    4.8
  • Responsibilities
    5.0
  • Support & Guidance
    5.0
  • Culture
    5.0
  • Your Impressions
    5.0

    Overview

  • 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
  • I worked on two different projects, one for my team and one with the other interns and some grads. I was working in software engineering mostly to design UIs.


    Skills

  • 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
  • They provided a lot of training, for example in test driven development. I hadn't worked with javascript before and learnt that through the internship. They also gave training for presentation and communication skills, so developed those too.


  • How would you rate the training provided during your experience?
  • 5/5

  • How would you rate your development of industry-specific skills during the experience?
  • 5/5

  • 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
  • 5/5

    Responsibilities

  • 3. Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?
  • Yes, I had an individual project to work on with a final product produced.


  • 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?
  • There was a lot of training to make sure we started with a solid skillset, and everyone was very keen to help when needed.


  • 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?
  • The company culture was good with lots of social events organised for us.


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

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

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

  • 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 it.


  • Please rate your level of enjoyment on your placement / internship
  • 5/5

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

  • Please rate the future employment prospects at Capital One
  • 5/5

  • 7. Would you recommend Capital One to a friend?
  • Yes


  • 8. What advice would you give to others applying to Capital One
  • There are a fair few stages to applying so brush up on programming and presentation skills.


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Details

Internship (1 Month+)

Software Engineering

London

August 2024


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