Extreme Blue Business Intern Review

The IBM Extreme Blue is fantastic. You get the opportunity to take control of a real project with access to all of IBM's resources, you develop some fantastic skills especially in presentation and the whole this is a huge amount of fun.

There are few people officially involved with the Extreme Blue projects since they want you to have independence to allow you to express your ideas. Those few people who are involved are always very excited about the project. That being said, you often need another person's skills set from within IBM and they almost always got fully behind the project.

The reason I haven't given this a 10 is that as I said previously, they want to give you independence. They are fantastically helpful, but sometimes it is better for you to work it out on your own.

You will be very busy!!! You work out your own work schedule, but if you make it on to the internship expect to be surrounded by people who will want to stay up nights getting the project completed.

I wasn't running the show, but as a team we were. The tagline for the internship was run your own business for 12 weeks and that is certainly what it felt like.

Hugely. For me as the business member of the team I think I mainly learnt about leadership and presentation. In job interviews for graduate jobs this has been extremely useful and I am sure it will be of great assistance in the future. Expect to develop an appreciation of people named Gareth.

Always a buzz. Own clothes, the internship gets their own space in the building and having lived with each other for a few months you feel like you're going to work with your mates!

The structure of the internship was excellent. Training for the first we days and then they let you get on with it with some organised presentation along the way. The trip to Nice for the European Expo was also very well handled and expenses were paid promptly.

If you needed help it was always there and you had access to all the resources you wanted. But this internship was about developing you skills in a team and in a presentation. Other firms may spend more money on actual training exercises, but I thin you learn more from the experiences in an internship like this.

This is the only part where IBM let me down. It took four months for a job offer to come through despite being part of the most successful team in Europe.

Everyone was so much fun and the drive and determination in the office was infectious. Living together also develops strong bonds.

Accommodation is included though a pint is quite pricey given you're in the south.

Have to say the nightlife isn't great, but there are great pub quizes during the week and I popped home most weekends.

Nothin arranged by the company, but we lived together and often went to the pub.