Assistant Developer Review
at ProspectSoft Ltd
Placement (10 Months+)
Computer Science
Oxford
Review Submitted: August 2022
Overall Rating
5 /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
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Overview of Role
5/5
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Skills Development
5/5
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Support and Guidance
5/5
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Company Culture
5/5
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Overall Experience
5/5
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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.
The role involved working on tri-weekly sprints in teams, selecting our own set tasks to complete, functionally testing others’ tasks, and doing QA testing in the final week of the sprint. We’d start every day with a morning stand-up to say what we achieved the day before and what our plans for the current day were. We also took part in sprint refinements and retrospectives along with the other developers, each sprint.
Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?
From the start, we were given equal responsibility to our seniors each sprint and not held back by the fact that we were placements. Once our initial training was completed, we joined the development team to do friendlier tasks for the first sprint and then got to choose from the same pool of tasks as everyone else on the team for every sprint after that.
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?
I’ve learnt a lot more about development in a working environment - using the Scrum framework. Before, I was familiar with HTML and JavaScript at a basic level, but I have since learnt about Typescript and Vue.js which are more widely used in the working world - compared to what I have used at university.
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?
We were encouraged to ask questions at every point of the year and were given dedicated training for development whilst the other placements were focused on more customer-facing-based training. Through daily stand-ups and weekly 1-to-1s with our mentors, our progress was monitored (in a caring, non-scary way) and encouraged.
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?
As a smaller company, it was quite easy to get to know everyone in your team and also in the company as a whole. We have company socials multiple times a year, whether that’s a Christmas meal or a summer outing, as well as social stuff organised by department or with the other placements.
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?
5/5
Overall Experience
To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?
I’ve enjoyed my placement a lot and will be sad when I have to leave to go back to university for my final year. I’ve learnt so many important skills involving development as well as working life in general. It was also nice to be able to build good relationships with my coworkers - those who are full-time staff and the other placements.
Please rate your level of enjoyment on your placement / internship
5/5
Please rate how your experience met your expectations
5/5
Future Career Prospects
Please rate the future employment prospects at ProspectSoft Ltd
5/5
Recommendations & Advice
Would you recommend ProspectSoft Ltd to a friend?
Yes
What advice would you give to others applying to ProspectSoft Ltd
You should research the company and its products as it shows your interest in the company as a whole and not just the placement. In the interview talk about your interests and hobbies and not just what you do at university as your passions show more of who you are as a person compared to what degree you are doing.
