Product Engineering: Software Review
by JLR
Rating
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Skills
5.0
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Responsibilities
3.0
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Support & Guidance
5.0
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Culture
4.5
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Your Impressions
4.7
- 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
- 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
- How would you rate the training provided during your experience?
- How would you rate your development of industry-specific skills during the experience?
- How would you rate your development of personal / soft skills during the experience?
- Please rate how these skills have helped you in your career development
- 3. Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?
- Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was
- 4. How much support and guidance did you receive during your placement / internship?
- How would you rate the support and guidance from your line manager?
- How would you rate the support and guidance from the wider team?
- 5. What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?
- How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?
- How would you rate the social opportunities?
- How would you rate the diversity initiatives?
- How would you rate the charity, sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives?
- 6. To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?
- Please rate your level of enjoyment on your placement / internship
- Please rate how your experience met your expectations
- Please rate the future employment prospects at JLR
- 7. Would you recommend JLR to a friend?
- 8. What advice would you give to others applying to JLR
Overview
I was involved with Full-Stack development of an internal business application called 'MARS' that assisted users in building and releasing vehicle software packages.
Skills
Learnt many new coding languages and frameworks such as TypeScript, Rust, React, FeathersJS, Node.js, Tauri and many more. Agile development, and team organisation as well as time management of my assigned tasks.
Responsibilities
I was given lots of responsibilities once they knew I was comfortable in doing so. I worked on the development and release of a tooling application for our main program. I was also given lots of development and engineering opportunities within our main refactored MARS application allowing me to learn new skills.
Support & Guidance
I received a lot of support and guidance from my fellow colleagues, always giving up their own time to jump in a call and try to help me out whenever they could and the early careers team were also always happy to help me outside of my regular duties.
Culture
It was very objective driven and also fast-paced at times when trying to meet deadlines for showcases to our wider departments and also stakeholders to our software we were developing our software. Sometimes found myself pressured to meet timeframes on work I was doing - however this was less pressure from my team but more from myself to meet deadlines, usually my team were quite laid back when it came to me meeting my targets.
Your Impressions
I very much enjoyed my time on placement. It was a great opportunity for my to learn and gain skills from industry professionals whilst also getting a bit of money for myself to set up and prepare for final year.
Yes
Be yourself and don't try to be perfect. I think one of the main things that helped me make it past the interview phase and receive an offer was that I was open and honest about the things I have struggled with and then how I then overcame or plan to overcome that issue, showing a growth mindset.
Details
Placement (10 Months+)
Software Engineering
West Midlands
June 2025
