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Rating
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About You
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The Company
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Everything Else
- 1. To what extent did you enjoy the insight?
- 2. To what extent did you feel valued during your time at the company or firm?
- 3. How much guidance/support did you receive during the insight?
- 4. To what extent did/will the skills you developed, and information you received, assist you in your degree studies and beyond?
- 5. How well structured was the insight?
- 6. How was the general atmosphere during your insight?
- 7. In terms of personal training and development, to what extent did the company or firm invest in you?
- 8. To what extent did the insight help you to understand what it would be like to have a full time role with the company or firm?
- 9. How much did the insight help you in understanding the company culture?
- 10. How valuable was the content in helping you to decide on your future career path?
- 11. Were you paid or reimbursed adequately for this experience?
- 12. Were there opportunities for networking and meeting other employees of the company or firm?
- 13. How were the networking/ social event opportunities?
- 14. Did you find out about activities that employees can get involved in outside of work?
- 15. Would you recommend this insight to a friend?
About You
Really overall amazing experience as we got to experience real-life work and see what working at the firm would be like if we were to get an offer to come back. Everyone was really helpful in explaining everything that they did in their work and models - though they were a bit busy, understandably.
Everyone I talked to was eager to help me and let me follow them into their meetings and explain their deals, models, and context of the company they were working on. Overall really friendly and approachable people who seem very down to earth and not at all condescending when asking 'stupid' questions.
Good support from the buddy - but recruiting team was a bit absent. Was not a bit problem as it was a very short experience but I would have liked to heard from them every day and to have more of a social aspect to it to connect with fellow interns and recruiting.
Really helpful - people helped me with any questions I had and really went in-depth into their models and took me through step by step of what they did and why. This really helped develop my technical skills and understanding, which will definitely help me in the future in work and studies.
The Company
There was not really a structure as we were following one 'buddy' and was very much dependent on their schedule and work. My buddy was a bit busy working on finishing up a project so I was a bit thrown in the deep to approach other people to shadow to interesting meetings and to investigate her work - but everyone was very helpful.
Really great atmosphere, everyone is down to earth and very patient and good listeners. It seems the firm is very social and everyone has good relationships with each other outside of a work-only relationship. Though they take their work seriously, they are not too serious in life and joke around as well.
There was no company wide training of some sorts (due to time constraints probably) which was a pity and I definitely would have liked if it was longer. However, everyone personally helped to improve my understanding of their work and how to execute this work as well in the future.
It helped my understanding for sure, as I was shadowing real people and real work, instead of case studies in other spring weeks. This really shows how it would be like instead of being immersed only with the other interns in a classroom - so I thought this was really great.
Got to meet people and experience the overall atmosphere that was present in the whole building and floors. People were very friendly and willing to talk to you - I got to experience their interactions with each other as well which was good, as this cannot be a 'staged' conversation.
Content was really wonderful as I got exposure to many different deals and valuations that they were working on. I really understand what all goes on into this work and exactly what they do - this really helped me figure out that this is what I want in the future.
Everything Else
We were paid more than adequately in my opinion - as it was only a 3 day shadowing experience and we were not even doing/contributing to their work. Very surprised we were paid, especially going through all that effort just for 3 days. Pay was quite good as well in my opinion.
This was very much up to yourself - we met a buddy and the rest was up to you to approach people or be introduced to people by your buddy.
Same as before.
Seems like they are all very social and hang out after work
Really amazing experience.
Details
Insight / Vacation Scheme (< 4 Weeks)
Financial Management
London
April 2019