Test Engineer Review
at Cummins
Placement (10 Months+)
Engineering
Darlington
Review Submitted: June 2021
Overall Rating
3.7 /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!
4/5
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Overview of Role
4.3/5
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Skills Development
4/5
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Support and Guidance
3.5/5
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Company Culture
3/5
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Overall Experience
3/5
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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.
Role, requires preparing system files, test instructions and supplying any parts required for testing in response to the customers requests. This also involves regular meetings to keep all stakeholders for the test projects on the same page.
Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?
From the very start of the placement, responsibility was placed on me to a certain extent in running a test cell in conjunction with other colleagues. Responsibility for various tasks has increased as the months went by. We' were also provided with side projects among the regular job role to work on independently.
Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was
4/5
Skills Development
Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
Developed a wide variety of skills, such as people management, communication and the application technical engineering knowledge
How would you rate the training provided during your experience?
4/5
How would you rate your development of industry-specific skills during the experience?
4/5
How would you rate your development of personal / soft skills during the experience?
4/5
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?
Since the very start colleagues working on the same project as part of a team were very helpful providing plenty of relevant information along with good explanations. They were also always open to answering any question no matter how basic.
How would you rate the support and guidance from your line manager?
4/5
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 quite as due to COVID the number of people allowed onsite is very limited. Majority of contact is done virtually resulting in a lack of social interaction. The company is always looking to hold charitable events, one was organized by the students ourselves. There are opportunities to play sport within the company although this is restricted by covid
How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?
3/5
How would you rate the social opportunities?
3/5
How would you rate the diversity initiatives?
4/5
How would you rate the charity, sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives?
4/5
Overall Experience
To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?
Overall, I'd say I enjoyed the placement. Although COVID taking away the interactive aspect of the role did significantly hinder my enjoyment at times. Made tasks a lot more difficult to complete tasks working from home restricted to communication over media platforms, and at times learn the technical side of the job,
Please rate your level of enjoyment on your placement / internship
3/5
Please rate how your experience met your expectations
3/5
Future Career Prospects
Please rate the future employment prospects at Cummins
3/5
Recommendations & Advice
Would you recommend Cummins to a friend?
Yes
What advice would you give to others applying to Cummins
Don't be afraid to ask any kind of question. The more questions you ask the more opportunities you can gain and the more you learn.
