General Electric

I was part of the 1-year internship program.

It had a lot of structure because they had many interns every year, which is great. They made sure you had opportunities to shadow in other departments to learn, and you had to find your own project to push forward throughout the year, for which you were graded.

This gives you an amazing opportunity to own and lead something while being quite junior, which you could take any way you wanted.

After 6 months, I felt I had learned most of what there was in my department. Therefore, it would have been great to rotate somewhere else to keep learning during that placement year.