Business Technology Intern Review
at Discover Financial Services
Internship (1 Month+)
Software Engineering
Farnborough
Review Submitted: August 2023
Overall Rating
5 /5
The Overall Rating is the average of all the ratings given in each category. We take those individual ratings and combine them into one final score!
5/5
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Overview of Role
5/5
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Skills Development
5/5
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Support and Guidance
5/5
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Company Culture
5/5
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Overall Experience
5/5
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Future Career Prospects
Overview of Role
Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
Working as a part of an existing development team, you will be responsible a developing a system component that aligns with an actual business goal. Day-to-day you will be gaining hands on experience from other team members to develop your personal career goals to improve your effectiveness towards business goals as a software engineer.
Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?
Within their microservices architecture, I was given responsibility over a one small but important service which is used by 100s of developers within the company. This included migrating it to a different platform, creating unit, integration and cucumber tests and revamping the UI.
Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was
5/5
Skills Development
Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
Given the significant size of the systems and teams that are involved in Discover, there are opportunities to understand how development systems work at scale. Tools and technologies include Jenkins, Nexus Lifecycle, SonarQube, Cucumber, JUnit and Grafana.
How would you rate the training provided during your experience?
5/5
How would you rate your development of industry-specific skills during the experience?
5/5
How would you rate your development of personal / soft skills during the experience?
5/5
Please rate how these skills have helped you in your career development
5/5
Support and Guidance
How much support and guidance did you receive during your placement / internship?
The onboarding process and general guidance from HR was particularly well organized and allowed me to feel become a productive member of my team really quickly. Aside from my line manager, within the team I was assigned a mentor who would answer any technical questions I had. Generally, all members of my team were really approachable and would offer help whenever I asked. There were also Intern Networking Circle (INC) sessions led by a previous intern as a chance to socialize with other interns.
How would you rate the support and guidance from your line manager?
5/5
How would you rate the support and guidance from the wider team?
5/5
Company Culture
What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?
Everyone is very approachable, allowing me to feel comfortable asking any questions even if they may appear basic. There seemed to be no barriers to conversation between people at different seniority and in different teams.
How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?
5/5
How would you rate the social opportunities?
5/5
How would you rate the diversity initiatives?
5/5
How would you rate the charity, sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives?
5/5
Overall Experience
To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?
It was an extremely worthwhile use of my summer, and I gained a lot more than University could provide alone.
Please rate your level of enjoyment on your placement / internship
5/5
Please rate how your experience met your expectations
5/5
Future Career Prospects
Please rate the future employment prospects at Discover Financial Services
5/5
Recommendations & Advice
Would you recommend Discover Financial Services to a friend?
Yes
What advice would you give to others applying to Discover Financial Services
Make sure you research the Discover values (the DISCOVER acronym) and the three Discover behaviors (We play to win, we get better every day, and we succeed together) and how they resonate with you.
