Summer Intern Review

The placement has been pretty good fun. the first two weeks was a struggle as the team was slow to set the work and train me how to do the daily tasks, but once I had settled in they made me feel welcome and I enjoyed working with them here

I did feel very valued once I was settled in. My manager said in the mid term review that all the work I was doing was to a good standard and he was happy with this, and the other team members said they were happy I was doing a lot of the stuff they didn't enjoy doing so much. If anything I felt like I could've done even more

Again the first two weeks were quite difficult, as the team obviously were busy and had tasks to do so couldn't spare lots of time to train me and teach me things, but could only teach me for like an hour each day. Once I had built up the knowledge they helped me a bit but I liked completing my tasks on my own then asking for reviews with them.

It varied day by day but most days I had some form of work to do. The first two weeks was quite boring without many tasks and not wanting to be too annoying and keep asking, but once I had weekly and daily responsibilities and tasks I was busy for most of the remaining weeks, luckily I was never really so busy that I had to stay really late or come on the weekends.

I was given a good level of responsibility. They let me do important powerpoints for big meetings and attend these meetings. I was allowed to email clients but I didn't lead any phone calls with them. Part of this was my choice as I didn't really feel ready for this and would have got a bit scared if they asked me to call clients to be honest.

I don't think the skills gained and tasks completed on this internship will be too useful for my degree. It's a very different set of skills. The work here was a lot of people management, networking and etiquette and wasn't as intellectually stimulating or theoretical as any of the work I've done at Cambridge

Atmosphere was pretty good. People were a bit quiet to me at first but as I opened up they were friendly and chatty. I was invited to their drinks and coffees most of the time and I think they allowed me to settle in quite nicely, so thanks to them for that

On a whole firm level the internship was well organised, the recruiting, payment and all intern programmes were really organised and we were told exactly what was going on and where we had to be. Within my specific team it seemed they hadn't prepared exactly the projects and work for me to do before I came and it was only after a couple of weeks that the team truly knew what tasks and responsibilities I would have.

The company spent the first week with lots of training programmes for all interns across all parts of the bank. Once in TTS we had sessions, about 1-2 a week from different teams on different products/regions/roles within TTS. These sessions gave a general overview in terms of what different teams do in practice, but we did not get much training for the day-to-day activities we would have to actually take part in, like excel, client calls etc.

The prospects are positive. There is some chance I will be offered a place on the summer analysts programme as a result of the internship, which would be great. I think its a good bankand a good part of the bank to work for because the people are friendly, the hours are not too bad and the pay is good.

I think there was, and probably was even more than I knew, because I didn't get too involved in it. The all intern events were fun and we had a few intern drink nights but I socialised more with my floor then interns from across different floors. I also found it tiring to be at work all day so wasn't in the mood to go out drinking some of the times they went midweek.

I had no rent costs as I lived with my parents in London during the time I was working at Citi. The travel in and out to zone 4 on the tube is really expensive and the food in this area and in the Citi canteen too is also pretty expensive

Went out for drinks a couple times on a Friday. As its summer the bars are open and outside and it's pretty nice. Not sure there is a real clubbing scene or anything but for drinking in bars there are many nice places, just the drinks are really expensive, especially for a student.

Yeah they gave plenty of opportunities for interns to come to social events. The HR of Citi organised some events and speaker series for all interns, and a private viewing of the manga exhibition at the British museum. They left it up to us to organise individual networking meetings with people across the bank, which they claimed was really important to do