Summer Technology Developer Intern Review
at Barclays
Internship (1 Month+)
Software Engineering
Glasgow
Review Submitted: September 2024
Overall Rating
4.5 /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
4.8/5
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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.
Worked with team of dev/analyst interns on a project led by grad scheme colleagues
Day to day responsibilities include
- Writing code (mainly solo with some pair/mob programming) to resolve Jira tickets
- Reviewing code written by others
- Agile meetings, i.e. standups, sprint plan/retros
- Design meetings
- Deployment of code to cloud providers (AWS)
- Huddle calls to discuss project progress/gain feedback with more senior colleagues
- Attending insight events for career development
- Other fun events (cookie baking)
Day to day responsibilities include
- Writing code (mainly solo with some pair/mob programming) to resolve Jira tickets
- Reviewing code written by others
- Agile meetings, i.e. standups, sprint plan/retros
- Design meetings
- Deployment of code to cloud providers (AWS)
- Huddle calls to discuss project progress/gain feedback with more senior colleagues
- Attending insight events for career development
- Other fun events (cookie baking)
Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?
Our project was fairly large so there was quite a bit of responsibility given as a result of working on that
However there were opportunities to take on more responsibilities during the internship such as getting involved with different communities and events not related to our current work
However there were opportunities to take on more responsibilities during the internship such as getting involved with different communities and events not related to our current work
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?
In a technical sense:
- Got to learn new frameworks I hadn't used before (Spring Boot)
- Learned a lot about cloud deployment (big emphasis on this)
- As well as refining things I knew (React) + learning ways to use them better
In a soft skills sense my
- Presenting skills were developed greatly
- Collaboration skills (especially in a developer environment) were matured
- Professionalism skills greatly improved
- Got to learn new frameworks I hadn't used before (Spring Boot)
- Learned a lot about cloud deployment (big emphasis on this)
- As well as refining things I knew (React) + learning ways to use them better
In a soft skills sense my
- Presenting skills were developed greatly
- Collaboration skills (especially in a developer environment) were matured
- Professionalism skills greatly improved
How would you rate the training provided during your experience?
3/5
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?
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?
Our project leads were super supportive and always gave quick responses to any messages we sent them
Also (as mentioned before) we had huddle calls which gave us a lot of guidance from more senior colleagues about our project which was very helpful
Outside of that there were other colleagues who were very willing to offer support
Also (as mentioned before) we had huddle calls which gave us a lot of guidance from more senior colleagues about our project which was very helpful
Outside of that there were other colleagues who were very willing to offer support
How would you rate the support and guidance from your line manager?
3/5
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?
Very good in the Glasgow office, not at all what I expected from a bank
- Great with flexible working (only need to be in person on team anchor days)
- Flexible seating plans
- Lots of fun events (cookie baking) which make work more lively
- People are always very positive
- Great with flexible working (only need to be in person on team anchor days)
- Flexible seating plans
- Lots of fun events (cookie baking) which make work more lively
- People are always very positive
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?
5/5
Overall Experience
To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?
Very good - enough that I am planning to return after university
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 Barclays
5/5
Recommendations & Advice
Would you recommend Barclays to a friend?
Yes
What advice would you give to others applying to Barclays
For applying to the internship:
- There are quite a few assessments to do during the application process so make sure to give yourself enough time to do them all
- Assessment centre is far more competancy-based than focusing on coding stuff - good idea might be to have a friend do a mock interview which can help settle some nerves
- There are quite a few assessments to do during the application process so make sure to give yourself enough time to do them all
- Assessment centre is far more competancy-based than focusing on coding stuff - good idea might be to have a friend do a mock interview which can help settle some nerves
