System Engineer Review

I enjoyed it very much, the work was interesting and my fellow interns were fun. It helped that we lived in the same area as well. I also enjoyed the networking opportunities presented to us.

My colleagues were pleasant and extremely helpful, it was my favourite thing about my experience here.

I was given excellent support, my queries were always answered and I was generally given enough direction without being spoonfed.

It varied, I was busy for most of the internship, especially for the first month, but things began to tail off towards the end. A decent balance, but some days were admittedly dull.

I was put in charge of my own project alongside other responsibilities, so I alone was in charge of meeting the deadline. The project was key to several other teams across the department, so it was a large amount of responsibility.

Immensely, I learned new programming languages from scratch which assisted me greatly in my final thesis. Also the general communication skills I picked up have greatly reduced my fear of working in a new environment or with new people.

It was your general office atmosphere, although relatively laid-back. People were friendly and open to having a quick chat if they weren't busy. The London office atmosphere was a bit less friendly though.

It was alright, some hiccups in the first few days regarding login credentials and work station set up. The lack of a permanent desk may have been an issue for some but I felt it was okay.

The company invested a lot of time in regards to networking opportunities, and allowed us to travel to the London offices for a day. There wasn't that much else besides that, although there was available training courses that could be requested.

Quite appealing, I received an offer and will hope to join them on the graduate scheme.

Yes, we all happened to live in the same student housing so there we became a fairly close knit group. Nights out were frequent and convenient to organise as well, and I met some good friends here.

I lived in Bournemouth, in a student let for the summer. The company subsidised our rent so that was fine. There were many places to eat around the area I lived, which was fairly close to the beach and the shopping areas. They were cheap as well.

It's not London, but it seemed like a fairly decent scene. There are many bars and restaurants around, some of them beachfront. The clubs are alright, most interns just ended up at one particular club most nights.

Yes, there are many sport and other related activities outside of work. There was the CSR day where we went to a park for some volunteer work, which was a nice day off.