Software Engineer Review

Item: Software Engineer at Nomura
Rating: 4.9
Author: Anonymous

at Nomura

Placement (10 Months+)

Software Engineering

London

Review Submitted: June 2025

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

4.8/5 - 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.

I attend daily scrums, I design new systems and then write the code for our compliance IT team. I help other members of my team with systems that I look after.

Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?

Yes, I was given my own tasks to complete and trusted to complete them to a good standard. I was reached out to by members of my team and other teams for help on these systems I have made. I was also invited to join meetings discussing strategy of the team and helped interview and choose next years interns

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 learned so many new skills, including containerisation, APIs, kubernetes, docker, NGINX, LDAP, Ansible, Jenkins, CI/CD and more. A lot of this stuff university does not teach you so this year has been so valuable in teaching me stuff for university and my future career, I can’t recommend it enough.

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?

Every time I asked for support I got it. My managers set out a road map for me to achieve everything I wanted to achieve in placement and understand the broader compliance IT functions.

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?

Amazing, I can see why a lot of the senior staff have stayed here so long. Work life balance is great, my manager is really understanding if I have out of work problems and the other young people in the office are a really good laugh