Student Engineer Review

Item: Student Engineer at Arcadis
Rating: 4.9
Author: Anonymous

at Arcadis

Internship (1 Month+)

Civil Engineering

Cardiff

Review Submitted: August 2022

Overall Rating

4.9 /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!

5/5 - Overview of Role

5/5 - Skills Development

5/5 - Support and Guidance

4.8/5 - 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.

I worked as a part of the highways team. Day to day I've predominately been working on updating AutoCAD documents, attending meetings and going on site. I was very luckily to be able to work on a project near London so I spent half the week living there (provided by company) and half the week working from home.

Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?

I was given responsibility to change drawings e.g. not doing work that doesn't actually 'count' towards anything.

Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was

5/5

Skills Development

Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?

My AutoCAD skills have developed massively as well as applying knowledge learnt at University to real-life situations.

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?

The whole team has extremely supportive. There are many people I can reach out to for help and everyone is always very kind and happy to assist. My line manager is particularly helpful and supportive.

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?

The atmosphere is fantastic, it's clear that the staff are happy to work there.

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?

5/5

Overall Experience

To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?

I have really enjoyed my summer internship and I would love to come back for my placement year. It has massively exceeded my expectations and given me a very good insight into that a career could look like for me.