Intern Review

This was a fantastic role, and the team was flexible about their plans regarding my internship, allowing me to get involved in a lot more technical projects than they originally planned on account of my technical skill level.

Extremely, I got positive feedback from the team and they all tried their best to include me in on projects that they were working on, I felt like a member of the team in a very short amount of time and joined them for lunch nearly every day.

My supervisors often took time out to explain the technical details on any projects that I worked on if they were above my level, the team is certainly committed to sharing information and supporting others.

For the majority of the time, I was very busy as we had multiple projects ongoing as well as customer visits to prepare the lab for as well as consulting with customers. The only time that things got a little quiet was towards the end of my internship when the big projects that we had been working on were complete leaving only customer visits to keep me busy.

I have rated this question at 8/10 because to be realistic, I certainly wasn't running the show however the team did entrust me with a lot of hands on work and administrative access in the lab because they knew I was at the level where I can do the majority of work needed and for what I don't know, I'm wise enough to ask for help.

I am hopeful that my experience will help me as I search for further employment, I did get lots of hands on practical experience in a network infrastructure role and see how the CPOC departent functions within the business.

The atmosphere was brilliant, the team were really fun people to be around and we had a lot of laughs, plus they were really into the technology that we work with and very committed.

The only problems with the setup was the communications between the interview stage and being told if we're successful (however Cisco spoke with us at the end of the internship about this and hope to prevent this issue next time), once the internship was started, it was an excellent experienced with an excellent structure involving 3 reviews to ensure that both you and your manager can agree on what you'll get out of the experience. My manager in the intertnship was really friendly and helpful regarding me getting the most out of it.

There is a number of training packages avilable to staff and interns get access to these training packages as well, I made use of some of these which I needed in order to do my job.

I won't know what my future prospects are until I finish University.

I only spoke to the other interns during the meeting at the start and a webex meeting at the end of the internship, and we exchanged contact details during that final meeting.

Unfortunately living costs are expensive in the London area, and it took me a lot of hunting to find a place to stay that was affordable within my salary, offered long term lets, and it didn't leave much for food/drink.

I can't really rate this fairly as I didn't have money for such luxuries

Outside of work, I didn't really get involved in any other activities, sometimes I stayed late at work if some of the others were working late in order to get more work done on projects and the office allowed for this.