Placement Software Engineer Review

Item: Placement Software Engineer at Motability Operations
Rating: 4.9
Author: Anonymous

at Motability Operations

Placement (10 Months+)

Software Engineering

Bristol

Review Submitted: August 2024

Overall Rating

4.9 /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

5/5 - Skills Development

5/5 - Support and Guidance

4.8/5 - Company Culture

5/5 - Overall Experience

5/5 - Future Career Prospects

Overview of Role

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

Dependant on team - day to day consists of agile meetings to include a daily standup, reviews, retrospectives and refinements. We pick up tickets raised by either our own team, or elsewhere in the company and complete them. This is frequently maintaining, upgrading or creating new systems.

Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?

We were given a student-led project to complete where we aim to research and implement a carbon reduction initiative. This is entirely our responsibility, and given the quality may be further used by the company. There are also plenty of opportunities to pick up responsibilities within individual teams.

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?

I have learn a significant amount of industry standard skills to include: Development pipelines, a number of industry standard tools and softwares, new languages, agile working and more. There is also plenty of opportunity to develop your existing skills such as communication, leadership etc.

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?

Provided with both a Mentor, as well as a Manager. Both are exceptionally helpful and reliable points of contact. The majority of days within the first month are spent with the mentor, but this can be more or less dependant on how much guidance you require.