Jennie's Junior Developer Internship with Proxama

Although my degree has given me an education in Computer Science it has not given me any experience using it in the real world. Looking for jobs, I found that they all wanted people with experience. Even the graduate jobs required the applicant to take some form of test to demonstrate their abilities which were often outside the scope of my degree. So when I came across the idea of doing an internship I thought it would be an excellent way to get that much needed experience.

Proxama are a great company to work for. Everyone is very welcoming and happy to give advice when it’s needed. I started working on the R&D (research and development) team as a junior developer with three other interns, one other developer and two business analysts. We were given a basic induction on Proxama, the history of the company and where it’s going and then we were given individual training on the aspects we were working on. I started learning two new programming languages and we were given the time we needed to do tutorials and research before we started working with them.

The work is challenging and fast paced. Working in R&D often means starting projects, working hard on a concept, but then having to move onto something else before it’s finished. We often pause our work to help other teams when they needed help with projects for clients.

I feel very privileged to have been able to take part in this internship. I would recommend doing it to anyone as it’s a fantastic way to get experience and learn skills and practices in the work place that you just don’t learn in your degree. It’s a lot of hard work and we were all thrown in at the deep end, but it’s been a wonderful experience and I am very happy to say I have been offered a permanent job here at Proxama. Counting the internship, and thanks to it, I was able to get into paid employment, in the area I studied in my degree, ten days after getting my results.