Quality Placement Student Review

Item: Quality Placement Student at Forvia
Rating: 3.9
Author: Anonymous

at Forvia

Placement (10 Months+)

Engineering

Banbury

Review Submitted: August 2023

Overall Rating

3.9 /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 - Overview of Role

4.3/5 - Skills Development

4.5/5 - Support and Guidance

3/5 - Company Culture

4/5 - Overall Experience

4/5 - Future Career Prospects

Overview of Role

Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.

Data collection and presentation to rest of the team. Raising POs, data analysis and presentation to customer. 8D analysis of customer complaints, B2B, root cause analysis, update and develop data collection process.

Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?

Responsible for overseeing day-to-day quality of one of the production lines. Responsible for consolidating and presenting the current data to the customer on a daily basis. Responsible for ensuring that Purchase Orders for all jobs get processed on time. Responsible for keeping the B2B system up to date in time in order to not negatively affect the companies ranking.

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?

Improved excel skills vastly as well as overall communication and professionalism.

How would you rate the training provided during your experience?

2/5

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?

Two week handover from previous student. Afterwards the was not much support due to the rest of the department being busy. Learnt a lot through trial and error as well as teaching myself. No rigid support system, very individual down to the team around you, your manager and the current situation across the whole plant.

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?

4/5

Company Culture

What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?

Atmosphere is very unprofessional and casual when customers not involved. Frequent rude, misogynistic and unpleasant jokes/remarks which seems the norm. Need to have a thick skin to cope with the daily banter. However, everyone is kind and supportive and wants to see you unlock your potential during the year.

How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?

2/5

How would you rate the social opportunities?

4/5

How would you rate the diversity initiatives?

1/5

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?

I very much enjoyed my experience, confirming my desire to pursue a career in the automotive industry. Has been challenging at times however that is what I wanted out of a placement. I feel that I am now in the position that I wanted to be in at the end of the placement.