IT Intern Review

While working for GE Capital, I was an important member of the team and I was given tasks that would make a difference to the business. My input counted towards the total output. I enjoyed working in a team of extremely talented, enthusiastic, passionate people. Overall, I loved my placement.

My manager and the team gestured me very nicely initially. Within a few days, I was receiving emails like every other member of the team. The team didn't make it awkward for me and the conversations helped me merge into the work ethics easily.

My manager was based in US, he was my mentor giving me feedback and guidance on the best ways to approach a certain task. He provided me so much support which made me feel instantly like part of the team and that the work I was doing actually counts.

As my manager was in US and he wanted to ensure that I have enough on my plae. He used to give me tasks and it was down to me to set the deadlines and meet them. So on average a typical day will be erally busy, with meetings, teleconferencing and regular email conevrsations etc.

I was involved in various projects during my placement, I was responsible for many tasks mainly working to provide in-house solution to many different business problems, and my contributions to those tasks made real influence to the company. At the start of my placement, I was asked to help one of the teams with their project. However due to my enthusiasm and dedication towards work, I was declared the PM of one the projects for the business.

Altogether, placement helped me realize the importance of achieving work experience while following a degree. It covers the essential practical segment which we tend to ignore when receiving education most of the time. Therefore I recommend a placement year to all higher educational students at some stage within their higher studies.

I was ufortunate in the first few months, as my team was global and I didn't have a lot of friendly atmosphere. But later we moved with one of the GE Capital business, and the employees were really friendly.

WE never had interns in our team before, so I was the experimental intern for the first few months. But as the time went past, my manager became more organised and aware of internship process. It was great fun.

If I needed to travel ,the company paid the expenses. I needed different devices for my role and my manager invested the money to get me an ipad 2 and samsung galaxy tab.

Very. I have heard positive comments from the team in terms of coming back as a graduate back in the company.

Oh yes. We had a intern group f 12 GE Capital nterns only and more than 40 interns in GE.

It was ok. Socialising was good but living was a rip off. £1400 a month for one bedroom flat.

Amazing. Working in hammersmith gave me a few choices. But being close to Central london gave me choices and we usually spent our nights at bar or something.

I had great chace to network, volunteer. Company supports these kind of interests.