Engineering Intern Review

As an engineering intern I was part of a Scrum Team led by a Scrum Master alongside other interns. A typical day would have my daily stand-ups, meetings either with my team or scrum master. There would also be meetings and workshops that were set up by NatWest that we were urged to attend alongside other events.
Besides that I'm usually working on my group/individual project, or socialising with my fellow interns.

I would say 50/50. We as a group were quite self sufficient and owned our own work. There was a lot of trust that was given to us as long as we didn't overstep.

The most important skills I've definitely developed more is communication and teamworking skills. It was my first time working on a scrum team following agile and one as big as 10 people. There was a mix of technical and non-technical backgrounds in my team so being able to accommodate for that was a great learning opportunity in its own way.
I've also learnt how to work within an agile team and see why a lot of companies do work in agile teams. We get given quite a lot of freedom, so I've been able to explore new technologies that I've never used during my time in university so that has been very good.

Everyone was very friendly and open to talking. I had multiple channels of support during my internship, from my Graduate Buddy, Scrum Master, Programme Experience Consultant and my fellow interns, so I felt very supported during my time here.
Any help and support I need I was able to message my closest contact and most of the time they were able to resolve it, if not they would then refer me to someone who can and it's been a good experience everytime.

Excellent. Everyone is very friendly and willing to talk and help out. As an intern at least it can feel daunting to talk to full-time employees, especially higher-up ones, but the opportunities I got to speak to a few of them they were very open and happy to talk to me.
Work life balance is also great, it operates on a certain level of trust so as long as you get your work done, you should be good. Just respect the others around you and they'll respect you.

I very much enjoyed it. I got to work on projects I found very interesting. I also got to talk to a lot of very interesting people, from interns to full time employees from different departments and it was really fun just to hear their experience. May have also gotten lucky with the specific cohort, but very happy with the social aspects as well as the work aspect.

Yes