Engineering student Review

Rolls Royce are a really interesting company to work for. Obviously there absolutely huge and you cant help but be impressed by their business set up and the products they manufacture. It was a great job and it really inspired me to become an engineer. They are truely a leader of engineering.

Rolls Royce have great employees, whom are extremely helpful, supportive and become like family over time. I became really close friends with many of them and I am still come to many today. Rolls Royce have a variety of people, from fresh new faces to people whom have been with the company for years.

My supervisor made sure that I had work organised for me and made sure that I was able to get a lot out of the placement. He helped go through my work on a regular basis and corrected me if I made mistakes and gave me some great feedback.

At the start of the placement it was quite slow moving however I got some great project work further into the placement once I had found my feet. I never felt bored but that is because its an amazing company to work for.

I wasn't given loads of responsibility but I did have projects to do and get involved in. One of the main reasons for this is probably because I worked for them on a placement in my gap year and therefore hadn't really been exposed to anything engineering at this point, so they were teaching me througout the placement.

Having the basic engineering knowledge before university only made my first year so much easier, because I understood many of the concepts already. They also taught me about industry and about being a professional.

It was a nice office where people asked if you were okay and you began to know everyones names pretty quickly, even for such a large organisation. There are also a lot of young people which makes it easier for you to make friends.

Rolls Royce offer many different types of skills and therefore are set up for these types of placements and internships. The whole process was flawless.

Looking back on it, investing in someone on their gap year is worthy of merit. It just shows the commitment rolls royce has to investing in the community and they recognise the potential of employing people and developing their talent right from early on in degree studies.

To anyone whom loves engineering, I would reccommend you go to work for rolls royce. I myself want to work for a slightly smaller company abroad but rolls royce are fantastic employers whom treat their staff really well.

There is quite a lot of young people, from year placements to graduates to summer placements, i made a good group of friends.

Its an area I know well and its the midlands so its pretty cheap.

I love the midlands you have big cities like nottingham and leicester and then smaller towns with lots of bars and things to do. I was never bored at the weekends.

There were a few football teams though Im not one for football. I also went to the pub with my team a few times.