Aerospace Engineer Review
at BAE Systems
Placement (10 Months+)
Aeronautical and Aerospace Engineering
Warton
Review Submitted: June 2025
Overall Rating
3.8 /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
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Overview of Role
3.8/5
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Skills Development
5/5
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Support and Guidance
3.3/5
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Company Culture
3/5
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Overall Experience
4/5
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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.
Support Modelling and Data Engineer supporting the Typhoon and Hawk Aircraft through availability and reliability based modelling of components and systems. Predominantly based on Matlab software, but Excel and VBA coding also used. Placement included a lot of coding and mathematical modelling.
Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?
I developed my own models and systems, I also managed to get some leadership experience during my time, presented my work to senior members of the organisation even at director level, models developed managed circa 100million £ worth of assets each week, so a lot of responsibility
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?
Coding skills, presentational skills, technical knowledge, developed interpersonal skills, financial skills, time management, stakeholder management, engineering knowledge
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?
4/5
How would you rate your development of personal / soft skills during the experience?
3/5
Please rate how these skills have helped you in your career development
4/5
Support and Guidance
How much support and guidance did you receive during your placement / internship?
Plenty from my actual team, less so from Early Careers
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?
Slow, outdated and 'This has never been the way we have done it before' was the typical pushback you would receive. The company itself looks after you really well and the atmosphere as a result is a good one. The world of support is a really ageing demographic and so I was working day to day with 50-60 year olds looking to retire, as a 21 year old.
How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?
4/5
How would you rate the social opportunities?
2/5
How would you rate the diversity initiatives?
4/5
How would you rate the charity, sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives?
3/5
Overall Experience
To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?
I did enjoy it - but coming into the business I expected something more fast paced and technical specific, like Aerodynamics or Propulsion related. It is nothing of the sort. It is all excel based spreadsheet pushing and if you do not actively seek work you probably won't receive it, however if you ask for work it comes quick and heavy
Please rate your level of enjoyment on your placement / internship
4/5
Please rate how your experience met your expectations
2/5
Future Career Prospects
Please rate the future employment prospects at BAE Systems
4/5
Recommendations & Advice
Would you recommend BAE Systems to a friend?
Yes
What advice would you give to others applying to BAE Systems
Really read the job description and go for a specific role that directly mentions the areas/software you are interested in. If designing your own systems/ applying theory is a big thing for you then I would recommend to try and get into a testing/ design role in either future fighter or test and evaluation, if maths and coding is interesting to you, go into support.
