Industrial Placement - Technology Professional Review
at BT Group
Placement (10 Months+)
Computer Science
Belfast
Review Submitted: July 2022
Overall Rating
3.1 /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!
2/5
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Overview of Role
2.8/5
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Skills Development
3.5/5
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Support and Guidance
4.5/5
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Company Culture
1.5/5
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Overall Experience
3/5
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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.
My role is programming depending on workload you will either be assigned small tasks to do which then you write unit tests for, for larger tasks you may work alongside other programmers. This will then be reviewed and if there are comments you will work on those before they are deployed. As well as this I have had tasks updating documentation and working on bugs
Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?
At several points I would be given no work due to disorganisation on my team and so for sometimes weeks at a time I would be working on online courses or doing small admin tasks like updating documentation for the wider team. I have had some responsibility since swapping teams however it is pretty much based on luck if you will be given work to do or told to do online learning
Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was
2/5
Skills Development
Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
I had not previously programmed in Java, and have learnt about html also. I have used a number of development programs as well including intelij and postman. There has been lots of online learning where i could choose what to study
How would you rate the training provided during your experience?
3/5
How would you rate your development of industry-specific skills during the experience?
2/5
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
3/5
Support and Guidance
How much support and guidance did you receive during your placement / internship?
Some team members have really made an effort to teach me and give me work to do. We have older grad buddies who we could go to for help and some of the senior developers are happy to help where as others ignore your messages (this has happened to a number of new starters across different teams this year). My line managers have been great.
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?
2/5
Company Culture
What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?
The people I work with and the office environment was for sure the best part of the placement, I've made friends I will definitely keep in contact with after my placement, and there was a night out at the start of the year. Coming into the office was good at the start of the year as you could socialise and help each other but this has been interrupted due to covid and office renovation
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?
3/5
Overall Experience
To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?
I wish I had worked for a smaller company as at the end of this year I genuinely don't know if I would consider the year out of uni at all beneficial to myself other than being able to save some money and live in a new place. I really made some good friends but do not think I have learnt enough to consider the year a success
Please rate your level of enjoyment on your placement / internship
2/5
Please rate how your experience met your expectations
1/5
Future Career Prospects
Please rate the future employment prospects at BT Group
3/5
Recommendations & Advice
Would you recommend BT Group to a friend?
No
What advice would you give to others applying to BT Group
The money and career progression opportunities post grad scheme are great but I would seriously suggest applying to a company more willing to give new starters actual work and monitoring their progression to make sure they are using their time properly. It's not the fault of the line managers but there is too many people to keep track of if people are actually getting work
