Met office summer placement

Hello I’ve been offered an interview for the summer placement scheme at the met office and was wondering if anyone had done the same and has an idea what the interviews are like x

Thank you so much! I’m super nervous but excited, which placement did you apply for? Good luck also!!

Hey! I've got my interview this week. Feeling pretty nervous too, I've applied for the media and campaigns position. What did you go for? Good luck if you haven't had it yet, and if you have, how did it go? :-)

Hello I actually got rejected this morning from my interview last week not a great day for me but I suppose everything happens for a reason, they were really nice and lovely people who made me not nervous at all, you’ll smash it, good luck!

Hello I actually got rejected this morning from my interview last week not a great day for me but I suppose everything happens for a reason, they were really nice and lovely people who made me not nervous at all, you’ll smash it, good luck!

I got rejected from mine as well it was a super technical interview and I wasn't prepared for nonstop coding questions, also used a lot of very confusing technical language!! Ah well, I do think we've still done well for ourselves by making it to this stage! When I followed up about my application I was told over 850 people applied and I think they were interviewing around 10 for each position so we still beat the odds to an extent! Good things ahead, onwards and upwards eh

Sounds like a really difficult interview and very stressful! 850?! You're absolutely right, 850 people is a lot, so that's such great news that we've made it this far and a really positive sign that at least our applications are strong haha. Still waiting to hear back for mine... Best of luck in the future and with your summer plans!

Did you end up getting an offer?
Or has anybody else got one?

Well done on getting an offer. I’m assuming you got a technical placement as you’re doing a cyber security degree. I also managed to get a placement, but all summer placements seem to have been made virtual/remote this year due to COVID, so we don’t need to worry about things like accommodation... that is unless you’re doing a 12 month placement?

Niceee. Well done to you too
And Yh a 12 month placement so need to find a place. Which one did you get

Well done on getting the 12 month one! I decided to go for the Edinburgh one - observations and quality management role. Which role did you pick? Also, I think they are planning on arranging a visit to Exeter at least once for summer placement interns - subject to Covid. Maybe we’ll get the chance to see the other interns then.
With regards to finding accommodation, you should probably start looking now - perhaps think of shared accommodation, or try contacting previous interns who went to Exeter. There may be some useful websites out there to help you find something.

Congrats on receiving an interview. In the pandemic, this is quite hard to achieve, so you're already doing well.
Whilst I haven't had an interview myself for anything like this, I would just research on what possible interview questions will be like.
Get your application (if you have it saved) read by your parents, and ask them to pick it apart and design questions to ask you.
Treat that as a mock interview.

If you cannot access it, then this site might help. https://www.mockquestions.com/company/Met+Office/

Good luck in the interview.