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This was a very mixed experience for me - last year I had an excellent internship at the Bank with a team that valued me and gave me interesting work, but this year they ignored my request to return to that team, and placed me with financial accountants w...
I thoroughly enjoyed my placement – it was engaging and challenging. It was really cool to see my degree subject matter being applied in the real world. Everybody was encouraging, and there was a strong culture of further learning. It was a great experien...
Really enjoyed the internship, friendly and supportive team members. I was allocated exactly where I wanted to work, so I enjoyed getting to know more about my area and the paths people took to get there.
I really enjoyed it. I learnt a lot and would love to work at the Bank of England in the future.
The Bank's placement was unstructured and as such, the beginning of the placement was "bitty" and not engaging. Networking plays a large role in the type, and scope, of work you get involved with and after a while I was working on an array of projects cov...
I enjoyed aspects of the placement. The work was at times interesting and rewarding but far too often repetitive and dull. The vast majority of my time was spent on excel spreadsheets, which became tedious. The people made the placement for me. I made som...
A valuable, insightful and well rounded experience.
Overall, the internship gave a really good insight into the responsibilities of the Bank. I was allowed to have hands on experience as an employee from day one as I attended meetings, seminars and produce work that the team used directly.
The Spring Insight week was really enjoyable, I learnt a lot in a short space of time and feel very fortunate to have taken part in this programme.
All summer interns work on a project, mine was interesting and I had a lot of choice in the direction it would take. In many cases interns' work will be used to guide future work by economists in the bank so it is satisfying to know your work is important...
The work I was given was really interesting, and I had the opportunity to attend / watch a lot of high profile meetings / events, e.g. the pre-MPC meetings where staff present to the Monetary Policy Committee; I was also able to shadow many of the Bank's ...
I had a great summer at the Bank of England, met a lot of really nice people and had some great work experience. My team was really friendly and keen for me to get as much as possible out of the experience. It also has a great working culture – it was nic...
The insight day proved very useful in terms of making my mind up as to whether I wanted to undertake an intership or placement year with the Bank of England. It gave a good experience of the values and culture that underly the Bank and which helped in my ...
The people working at the Bank of England are all extremely helpful and willing to give you advice regarding their roles within the Bank. However in my experience my manager wasn't too strict meaning I was able to work fairly flexible hours as long as I c...
I have thoroughly enjoyed my time at the Bank. The people have been extremely friendly and helpful and my role has been very interesting and exciting as it is at the heart of the financial markets and I can see the effects of my work in the news every day...
