Software Developer Review

by HM Revenue & Customs

Rating

4.9/5
  • Skills
    5.0
  • Responsibilities
    5.0
  • Support & Guidance
    5.0
  • Culture
    5.0
  • Your Impressions
    4.3

    Overview

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

    • Work on tickets on team PlatOps (Platform Operations). Wrote code for frontend and backend services, picked up support tickets, updated Platform policies for supported services and maintained existing service infrastructure on aws.

    Skills

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

    • DevOps methodology and tools. Scala language Learned best practices for development

  • 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?

    • 5/5
  • 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?

    • Lots, I had ownership for implementation and deployment of tickets I choose and the power to create my own tickets based on initiative.

  • 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?

    • Lots from team members - I was able to drop a message on slack if I got stuck or wasnt sure and I would be on call with a team member. Team members were patient with me too.

  • 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?

    • Cannot speak for company only MDTP department within HMRC, teams have lots of autonomy to define their owns ways of working to how we see best - resulting in excellent quality of life and efficient working, unlike other companies where there are coorporate mandates that slow people down. The atmosphere is relaxed as well, while there is a chain of command it was not unusuall for me to have lunch or chat at break with my manager or the even more senior Platform owners.

  • 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?

    • 10/10

  • 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 HM Revenue & Customs

    • 3/5
  • 7. Would you recommend HM Revenue & Customs to a friend?

    • Yes

  • 8. What advice would you give to others applying to HM Revenue & Customs

    • Read into civil service behavioral requirements, include them in STAR technique and youll smash interviews.

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Details

Placement (10 Months+)

Software Engineering

West Midlands

November 2024

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