Industry Placement Review

by Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl)

Rating

3.4/5
  • Skills
    3.0
  • Responsibilities
    3.0
  • Support & Guidance
    3.5
  • Culture
    4.3
  • Your Impressions
    3.0

    Overview

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

    • A mixture of research, data handling tasks, or design tasks for a variety of projects. For example this could be researching the difficultis of using VR for disabled people, compariing data on climate and operating condition of equiptment or designing a virtual environment.

    Skills

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

    • Learnt new skills in VBS4 and a little bit in R. Also had opportunities to learn about Virtual Reality technology which I have not had much experience in before.

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

    • 3/5
  • How would you rate your development of industry-specific skills during the experience?

    • 3/5
  • 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

    • 2/5

    Responsibilities

  • 3. Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?

    • Not given much responsibility. Felt often that tasks I was given were not important to the outcome of the overall project and that I was just doing things to save someone else from doing it.

  • Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was

    • 3/5

    Support & Guidance

  • 4. How much support and guidance did you receive during your placement / internship?

    • Got good support from the university and okay support from DSTL. My line manager changed 3 times over the course of my placement year which I think affecteed the quality of support I recieved.

  • How would you rate the support and guidance from your line manager?

    • 3/5
  • How would you rate the support and guidance from the wider team?

    • 4/5

    Culture

  • 5. What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?

    • Very nice workplace culture and environment. The people were very friendly and often keen to help me get the most of my placement experience. Good outside of work social opportunities aswell.

  • 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?

    • 4/5

    Your Impressions

  • 6. To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?

    • Overall I enjoyed aspects of it such as meeting people and the verall workplace culture. Howver large parts of this placement were very boring. I had to be very self-motivated to learn new things and make the most of it. Alot of the work didnt feel very rewarding.

  • 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 Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl)

    • 3/5
  • 7. Would you recommend Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) to a friend?

    • Yes

  • 8. What advice would you give to others applying to Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl)

    • Don't be surprised if at first you are placed in an area that doesnt seem to match your expertise. There are alot of opportunities to move around and find work that is interesting to you.

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Details

Placement (10 Months+)

Research

South East

November 2024

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