Software Developer Intern Review

Item: Software Developer Intern at Nomura
Rating: 5
Author: Anonymous

at Nomura

Placement (10 Months+)

Computer Science, Information Technology, Front-end Development

London

Review Submitted: October 2024

Overall Rating

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!

5/5 - Overview of Role

5/5 - Skills Development

5/5 - Support and Guidance

5/5 - 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.

Daily Scrum meetings, spring planning, JIRA backlog
Working on JIRAS - developing in Java/React/Typescript/Python
Unit Testing
Refactoring code

Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?

Yes, I was treated just like any other team member and had a range of responsibilities, I also had the opportunity to work on and manage my projects (microservices) and test them on Kubernetes host.

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?

Yes, I've learned numerous new skills - improved my coding skills, opportunity to work on projects in React/Typescript/Redux/Java - Spring/Python and technical articulation to explain features in meetings.
I also improved my networking, task and time management, communication, and collaboration skills.

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?

I received excellent support and guidance from my team, during the training week at the start of my placement, and the opportunity to network and work with the rest of my intern cohort.
We had a lot of online resources to learn and get started with project development, personalized training and help from my manager.

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?

People at Nomura are very helpful and friendly.
Anyone is always up for a coffee and a chat, I had multiple opportunities to reach out to senior management and get any career advice and this was really helpful.
I had a lot of support from my team in feeling welcomed and up to date with all the projects. In general, the culture is very friendly, warm and welcoming.

How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?

5/5

How would you rate the social opportunities?

5/5

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?

I loved my placement year. I had such a steep learning curve, and got the opportunity to work with many new and interesting projects - test it out using the latest available cloud technologies.
I also made a lot of friends and attended a lot of networking/social events organized by the company, which gave me an insight opportunity into the wider group of technology and how it all comes together.