Applications Development Officer Review
at Bury Council
Placement (10 Months+)
Data Analysis, Front-end Development, Information Technology, Software Engineering
Bury, UK
Review Submitted: October 2025
Overall Rating
4.4 /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
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Overview of Role
4.3/5
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Skills Development
4.5/5
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Support and Guidance
4.5/5
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Company Culture
4.5/5
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Overall Experience
4/5
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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.
System adminstration/ providing support to an external software and raising tickets if the software had issues/designed a web api to handle logic behind HMO forms/handle user permissions, adding or removing users/extract data from council systems through users requests and exported into a report
Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?
was given a reasonable amount of responsibility
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?
learnt new languages c# and .net, using visual studio (2022) for the first time/learnt to be more professional
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?
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?
If I was unsure, I could always ask my colleagues and my line manager. very friendly and supportive throughout my placement
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?
Informal and relaxed
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?
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?
to a large extent
Please rate your level of enjoyment on your placement / internship
5/5
Please rate how your experience met your expectations
4/5
Recommendations & Advice
Would you recommend Bury Council to a friend?
Yes
What advice would you give to others applying to Bury Council
Always ask questions and document or jot down notes as their can be quite alot of information overload. if you are unsure do ask your colleagues as they are happy to help.
Future Career Prospects
Please rate the future employment prospects at Bury Council
4/5
Did you receive an offer to return as a graduate?
No
