Technical Industrial Placement Review
at CGI
Placement (10 Months+)
Software Engineering
Leatherhead
Review Submitted: June 2024
Overall Rating
4.8 /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
4.8/5
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Skills Development
5/5
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Support and Guidance
4.5/5
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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 software developer in an Agile Scrum team. Work can vary from week to week due to the nature of Agile and picking up different pieces of work to do. This ranged from development, to testing, to writing up designs for future work. I was working on a web-based application, with the frontend in Angular Typescript, and the backend APIs in Java.
Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?
I was treated exactly the same as any other developer on the project. I was given the opportunity to present and demo pieces of new functionality to the customers over Teams calls, and my voice was heard if I ever had concerns during planning meetings with my team on what work to do next. I also was consistently providing meaningful work which unblocked future bits of work for me or my team to get started with.
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?
Learnt a lot more about web development, and lots of good experience with how a Scrum team should be run in terms of maximising collaboration and parallelisation between members. Good professional experience was gained too, by being able to demo pieces of work to the customers and being hands-on with them, rather than being more hidden away.
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?
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?
Whenever I needed guidance/help it was always easily accessible. Whether from managers or just my peers, all I had to do was drop someone a message or an email
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?
Relaxed and inclusive company culture. I never really felt like there was much pressure on me if things ran over a deadline, and was always provided help if I needed it. From the moment I properly got started on the project I was treated as an equal to my peer developers, and I could easily have a chat with any of them or any of my managers
How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?
5/5
How would you rate the social opportunities?
4/5
How would you rate the diversity initiatives?
5/5
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?
Thoroughly enjoyed
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 CGI
5/5
Recommendations & Advice
Would you recommend CGI to a friend?
Yes
What advice would you give to others applying to CGI
To put my email down as a referee so that I could get a bonus from CGI. Other than that, I'm not sure what specific advice I would give to anyone to apply to CGI. It would just be more generic advice you could apply to any job applications. i.e. be confident in yourself and your abilities and be honest
