Power Academy Scholar Review

Item: Power Academy Scholar at National Grid
Rating: 4.8
Author: Anonymous

at National Grid

Internship (1 Month+)

Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Project Management

Warwick

Review Submitted: August 2025

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

5/5 - Skills Development

5/5 - Support and Guidance

4.5/5 - 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.

Helping develop SI projects by reviewing documents, spreadsheet work/analysis, use of Geogrid, creating slidedecks, regular meetings with stakeholders and presentations

Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?

More than expected, was given my own tasks to be completed by a certain point, resource creation for team presentations

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?

Many skills, too many to list, but good skill development

How would you rate the training provided during your experience?

5/5

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

5/5

Support and Guidance

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

Whenever required by various team members, very helpful people and generally friendly also proactive not reactive

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?

Overall incredibly friendly and not "putting on an appearance" people happy to chat to share experiences and their job role overview, good atmosphere of good people