Software Developer Intern Review
by Nomura
Rating
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Skills
5.0
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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 Nomura
- 7. Would you recommend Nomura to a friend?
- 8. What advice would you give to others applying to Nomura
Overview
Daily Scrum meetings, spring planning, JIRA backlog Working on JIRAS - developing in Java/React/Typescript/Python Unit Testing Refactoring code
Skills
Yes, I've learned numerous new skills - improved my coding skills, opportunity to work on projects in React/Typescript/Redux/Java - Spring/Python and technical articulation to explain features in meetings. I also improved my networking, task and time management, communication, and collaboration skills.
Responsibilities
Yes, I was treated just like any other team member and had a range of responsibilities, I also had the opportunity to work on and manage my projects (microservices) and test them on Kubernetes host.
Support & Guidance
I received excellent support and guidance from my team, during the training week at the start of my placement, and the opportunity to network and work with the rest of my intern cohort. We had a lot of online resources to learn and get started with project development, personalized training and help from my manager.
Culture
People at Nomura are very helpful and friendly. Anyone is always up for a coffee and a chat, I had multiple opportunities to reach out to senior management and get any career advice and this was really helpful. I had a lot of support from my team in feeling welcomed and up to date with all the projects. In general, the culture is very friendly, warm and welcoming.
Your Impressions
I loved my placement year. I had such a steep learning curve, and got the opportunity to work with many new and interesting projects - test it out using the latest available cloud technologies. I also made a lot of friends and attended a lot of networking/social events organized by the company, which gave me an insight opportunity into the wider group of technology and how it all comes together.
Yes
Ask a lot of questions, and be enthusiastic and passionate about technology!
Details
Placement (10 Months+)
Computer Science, Information Technology, Front-end Development
London
October 2024
