Business Technology Intern Review

Item: Business Technology Intern at Discover Financial Services
Rating: 4.8
Author: Anonymous

at Discover Financial Services

Internship (1 Month+)

Computer Science

Farnborough

Review Submitted: October 2021

Overall Rating

4.8 /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!

4/5 - Overview of Role

4.5/5 - 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.

The job mostly involved learning new technologies and applying them in practice, we had daily meetings within the team and other UK and US interns.

Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?

We were given full responsibility for delivering results and had people to contact in case we needed help or got stuck. Everyone was helpful when we needed help.

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 improved both soft (communication, teamwork) and technical skills (JavaScript, React.js, SQL,...)

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?

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?

The guidance was good, we were given a lot of freedom to explore whatever technology we wanted to learn about. In case we had questions, someone could always help/provide further guidance.

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?

Since the company is US-based, there was quite a big difference between the UK and US culture, however, the atmosphere was very relaxed and the culture seemed to be nice.

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 enjoyed the internship quite a lot, although there was sometimes chaos, which is inevitable when there were 2 teams full of interns who are supposed to work together.