Junior Systems Test Engineer Review

Item: Junior Systems Test Engineer at ASMPT
Rating: 3.6
Author: Anonymous

at ASMPT

Placement (10 Months+)

Engineering

Weymouth

Review Submitted: July 2023

Overall Rating

3.6 /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

4/5 - Support and Guidance

2.5/5 - Company Culture

3.5/5 - Overall Experience

3/5 - Future Career Prospects

Overview of Role

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

As a Systems Test Engineer your primary job role is to test the the software the runs on our SMT printers before the software is released to customers.
The main responsibility is to find bugs with the software before the customers find them and then report them on the defect management server.
Job involves mostly manual software testing, sometimes a bit of hardware testing is also involved.

Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?

I was a Junior Engineer within the department and within a couple of months I had the exact same responsibilities as everyone else within my department.

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 greatly improved my time management and problem solving skills, as finding bugs requires a lot of investigation.
Working in a large company will naturally improve your communication skills and your commercial awareness.
I improved my programming skills as part of a individual project I completed, I suggested this project to my manager and it was approved for me to work on.

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?

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

4/5

Support and Guidance

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

I got as much support and guidance as I wanted. If I wanted more support this would have been given, if I wanted less support this also would have been possible

How would you rate the support and guidance from your line manager?

4/5

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?

Everyone at the company is very friendly and approachable and after the major office renovation, the office atmosphere is very good

How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?

3/5

How would you rate the social opportunities?

2/5

How would you rate the diversity initiatives?

2/5

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 enjoyed that I was able to take the placement in any direction that I wanted to.
I had the trust of my manager so was able to freely criticize or suggest changes within internal processes and these were usually listened to and these changes would be implemented.
I learnt a lot about what it is like to work in a large company, and gained a lot of commercial awareness and improved my soft skills greatly.