Industrial Placement Student Review
at Mott MacDonald
Placement (10 Months+)
Civil Engineering
CAMBRIDGE
Review Submitted: June 2024
Overall Rating
3.6 /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
3.3/5
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Company Culture
2.5/5
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Overall Experience
4/5
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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.
On a day to day basis I am creating carbon models to be uploaded to our internal carbon estimating tool called Moata Carbon Portal. Also assisting with the selling and onboarding of clients to using this tool. This involves regular client facing meetings and researching certain items of water infrastructure or mechanical items in order to accurately model their carbon impact.
Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?
At the beginning no, but as I gained experience and proved competence I have been regularly given the opportunity to take responsibility for increasingly important things.
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?
Yes, I have learnt a lot to do with carbon estimating, how to do it, and why it is important / how it can be integrated into both Mott MacDonald and our clients business model.
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?
5/5
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
4/5
Support and Guidance
How much support and guidance did you receive during your placement / internship?
I felt the support and guidance was adequate. It wasn't proactively placed upon me, but was always there when I asked for it.
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?
Most people are very friendly especially the graduates. I did feel however the office was predominantly employees who had been at the company for 10s of years and it didn't feel very modern or progressive. I also didn't feel the atmosphere was very hard working.
How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?
4/5
How would you rate the social opportunities?
3/5
How would you rate the diversity initiatives?
3/5
How would you rate the charity, sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives?
3/5
Overall Experience
To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?
At the beginning I did not really enjoy the placement as I was not getting enough work and had to fight for the work I got. Now, once I have proved competency in some areas of my carbon work I am enjoying it much more and am often giving interesting and challenging tasks which I enjoy.
Please rate your level of enjoyment on your placement / internship
3/5
Please rate how your experience met your expectations
2/5
Future Career Prospects
Please rate the future employment prospects at Mott MacDonald
4/5
Recommendations & Advice
Would you recommend Mott MacDonald to a friend?
No
What advice would you give to others applying to Mott MacDonald
Make sure you have intentions on what kind of work you want to do. As you will need to fight for those specific opportunities in order to get the work. otherwise I think you could be led down a path of doing boring admin tasks.
