Technology Summer Intern Review

Item: Technology Summer Intern at American Express
Rating: 4.9
Author: Anonymous

at American Express

Internship (1 Month+)

Computer Science, Computer Systems Engineering

Burgess Hill

Review Submitted: July 2021

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

5/5 - Company Culture

4.5/5 - Overall Experience

4/5 - Future Career Prospects

Overview of Role

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

Actively contributing to the codebase of the company.
Delivering products just as any other graduate and senior teams.
Working in an Agile team of 5, being involved in SCRUM meetings, creating stories, planning sprints, demoing products and contributing to perspective.
Working with latest technologies, such as Kubernetes, Jenkins, Spring Boot, Reactive programming.

Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?

Our project will help the company get proper metrics for the services they provide. Our project has not felt as an internship project and has added value to the company.

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 learnt and improved my knowledge of Java, while also consolidating my coding and development practices.
I have also gained expertise in dev-ops and got insights into how scalability is handled at Amex.

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?

All the seniors are able to help whenever we need it. We also had access to a lot of meetings to discuss any technical and social issues we had.

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?

Family.
Amex puts a lot of emphasis on the customer and employees. This results in a very pleasant environment, where one feels valued, feels important and not stressed.

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?

The internship was a tremendous experience, from which I've not only learnt how to be a better Software Engineer, but also consolidated my leadership skills and improved my network of people.