Software Engineer Review

Item: Software Engineer at Expedia Group
Rating: 4.3
Author: Anonymous

at Expedia Group

Internship (1 Month+)

Computer Science

London

Review Submitted: September 2021

Overall Rating

4.3 /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 - Overview of Role

4/5 - Skills Development

4.5/5 - Support and Guidance

4.3/5 - Company Culture

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.

I was in the identity management team at Expedia, and was looking at identity transactions between large employee databases every day, identifying faults and problems with identity transactions and analyzing them, automating extraction of this data from secure servers to an S3 bucket.

Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?

Yes, I was responsible for 2 large projects that the team has been requiring for some time, and was given considerable leeway in the ideas and implementation and design of how to complete each project, working with other interns and consulting my supervisors for help when needed.

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?

I have learnt skills working with Amazon web services, large databases using Microsoft database management systems, and creating, developing and managing REST API's in Java and managing API gateways using kubernetes

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

5/5

Support and Guidance

How much support and guidance did you receive during your placement / internship?

I met with my manager and buddy weekly, and was given lots of advice on specific technologies that may help me fulfill my role as well as soft skills and career advice 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?

4/5

Company Culture

What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?

We met almost every day with the entire team via zoom calls and the general atmosphere is friendly and guiding, everyone understands the issues with timetables in different time zones and is ready and willing to provide extensive help when needed.

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?

4/5

How would you rate the charity, sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives?

4/5

Overall Experience

To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?

I really enjoyed my placement as I learnt a lot of new skills with industry standard technologies, and I experienced working in a team around the globe and communicating and collaborating with other colleagues on meaningful tasks.