ICS Equities Sales and Trading Intern Review

There's such a range of activities that you are always busy and stimulated.

Almost everyone is absolutely lovely, and care what you have to say.

The work was fairly independent, but I had support when I needed it.

I am busy but very rarely overwhelmed - there's lots of different things to do.

There's lots of responsibility we can't be given in a sensitive environment, but we were given autonomy on tasks.

Balancing so many different things and working fairly long hours will be useful at university.

The trading floor is an amazing environment to be working in - there's so much going on all the time and so many people you can go and talk to about lots of different things. It was a very exciting place to be working, and everyone is very busy all the time.

The internship is amazingly well organised - we are told about everything we need to know well in advance, there's comprehensive training and a huge variety of different events throughout the time to ensure we are mixing with the other interns and still learning general things about the business as well as doing desk work.

There's lots of different tasks designed to develop your skills, even skills that you may not use in a single particular role - we all improve our public speaking and sales skills, and we all develop trade ideas and use PnL sheets even if we aren't going into that particular area.

I would love to receive a job offer from UBS - I think it's a great company and certainly somewhere that I want to work for my career. They genuinely care about their employees and develop you as a person as well as as a professional. I think it would be a perfect place to come for graduate training.

The interns are all very friendly and we regularly socialise together outside of work. The internship also organises a few events for us to socialise with the other interns at which are always good fun. There are lots of interns, but I am close to the ones on my floor and spend time with them.

It's an expensive area to live and eat and socialise - but that's to be expected in the centre of London, and we are paid enough to be able to afford it, although being paid at the end of a month of work makes it difficult to survive the first month.

The centre of London is obviously a good place for whatever kind of nightlife you feel like experiencing. There's lots of bars and pubs close to the office but clubs are in different areas I think. It's a very fun place to be for work and for after work finishes too.

You can make time for activities if you want to but you have to be careful with how you manage your time. It's definitely possible to do evening activities every day, you just then can't afford to waste time on other things. There are also lots of events at the office to get involved with.