Graduate Engineer Trainee Review

Overall, I have enjoyed my time at TfL. I've had the opportunity to work on many different project that have a large impact on the city I live in, and learn from the experiences each projects has given me. I've met many experienced individuals who have been supportive and open to share knowledge and helpful information related to my role as well as general advice, and the company always pushes you to be proactive with your time and allocate many senior staff to guide your progression through the company.

The main responsibility of this role is to contribute towards projects within Transport for London. This could be working on the engineering side to aid in developing solutions for challenges with TfL's many projects, project management to help steer a project to completion, working in finance, or a data department. Your main responsibilities will depend on the team that you choose to join, all in the goal of meeting the mayor's transport plan.

The responsibility given to me during my placements has given me the chance to make decisions that contribute to the direction of aspects of projects, which I find very rewarding.

Free travel on the TfL network, Eurostar discount, discounts and cashback at various places.

This role gives you the chance to experience a lot of different roles to find what suits you, and you can communicate with different companies in the railway industry to see what other working environments are like from the employees.

Each member of my support team have been very responsive and have helped me throughout my time with the company.

50-50 WFH/Office arrangement provides a lot of flexibility. TfL promotes physically wellbeing and activity with gym discounts and other perks that are advertised to us, and there are many committees within the company that cover many different interests which quite a few colleagues participate in.

Very welcoming environment to work in, teams are supportive, and promote development and communication. Most colleagues I have worked with have a hybrid approach, as per the 50/50 split, but communication has remained strong.

TfL takes EDIA very seriously. They do not tolerate discrimination against other colleagues and we have many systems in place to provide support to people requiring specific arrangements to perform.

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This role gives you an opportunity to explore multiple different areas of the business and contribute to large scale projects at different points of their life cycle, which gives a breath of experience that graduate roles with defined pathways may not be able to provide. You will have many different opportunities to develop and learn, and TfL emphasis on building a friendship with your other graduates is great considering how close all of the different scheme groups are with each other.

Some of the questioning during the interview does not seem very relevant retrospectively, but the need for team co operation and good communication is paramount to performing well in most teams.