Summer IT Analyst Review
by Morgan Stanley
This review was submitted over 4 years ago, so some of the information it contains may no longer be relevant.
Rating
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The Role
4.3
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The Company
4.3
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The Culture
4.0
- 1. To what extent did you enjoy your work placement or internship?
- 2. To what extent did you feel valued by your colleagues?
- 3. To what extent were you given support and guidance by management/your supervisor(s)?
- 4. How busy were you on a daily basis?
- 5. How much responsibility were you given during your placement?
- 6. To what extent did/will the skills you developed, and training you received, assist you in your degree studies and beyond?
- 7. What was the general atmosphere in your office?
- 8. How well organised was the overall work placement or internship set up?
- 9. In terms of personal training and development, to what extent did the company or firm invest in you?
- 10. What were the perks on your work placement?
- 11. How appealing are future employment prospects within the organisation?
- 12. Was there a good social scene amongst any fellow placement students/colleagues?
- 13. What was the cost of living and socialising in the area you worked in?
- 14. What was the Nightlife like in the area you worked?
- 15. Were there many opportunities to get involved in activities outside of work?
The Role
Great people who made me feel comfortable with my role, were always helpful and ready to answer all my questions. Superb learning curve, the job constantly pushed me out of my comfort zone, which is a very good think for learning.
All people were treating interns as equal co-workers.
I learnt A LOT from my manager, budy and technical mentor. I got extremly lucky with them. Always eager to answer my newbish questions.
Work from 8.30 - 9.00 to 18 - 18.30. 1 hour lunch break, most often than not talks for 1-2 hours per day (sometimes during lunch break though :( )
I wrote a functionality which was depandent by clients and was responsible for the whole life-cycle of the project (except from maintaining it, hehehe, poor guy who is). I was not running the company though.
Skills for life, espiecially for a computer scientist. You really learn a lot from your internship. And its not only the IT skills you develop. Doing an internship in an investment bank is really a life expirience: exposure to the corporate culture, all events around it, working in Canary Wharf etc.
The Company
People were quite relaxed and very friendly to each other, often joking, talking about job-unrelated stuff etc. They were serious about their job, though.
HR is doing a pretty good job. You always know about the upcoming events, you are well aware of where you need to be etc. Its not like you come to your desk and your manager wonders about who the heck are you. Everyone is well informed about new intern coming and in most cases you meet or speak with your manager a couple of weeks before your placement starts and he informs you about your project.
We had a very good 1-day introduction to capital markets and also two or three IT relates sessions. We also had team building activities and many interesting talks (both IT related and investment-banking centric).
Flexi Time
Subsidised Canteen
Subsidised/Company Gym
Company Parties/Events
Staff Sales/Staff Shop
Working from home
The Culture
Its quite expensive, but its London after all. Actually, some pubs in Canary Wharf are cheaper then, say, South Kensington. I recommend Cat and Canary (very good London Pride, they have some higly-rated beers as well, at least as far as widely-distributed beers are concerned). The are is magnificent with many pubs around. If you want something different, its London, you have maaany oppurtunities.
Pubs open until 11-12 (and tube working till 12, I think) so after that most people move to central London or go home.
Details
Internship (1 Month+)
London
August 2011
