Summer analyst in technology Review

I really enjoyed my summer internship at Morgan Stanley. I had a really interesting project which made me learn a lot of things about finance and machine learning. My team and especially my manager was really helpful and nice. I also learnt a lot of things about Morgan Stanley thanks to the several talks and networking events we had.

I feel valued by my colleagues because they showed interest in my project and some of them really helped me. I also did a presentation to my team of the software I am using to run machine learning algorithm, and a lot of them came and showed interest in it.

My manager really helped me every single time I needed his help. Whenever I had questions about finance and how things work he was very helpful by sharing his expertise. He also recommended me papers to read to help me on my project and gave me some very helpful feedback.

I had always something to do everyday, but I was never really in a rush to finish things. Especially at the beginning, I had time to get set up, to understand the project and even to watch some video lessons. Then I always had something to do but at the same time I had time for documenting myself.

As my manager was not an expert in machine leaning, I had responsibilities in term of finding and choosing the model by myself, while always checking with him that it was consistent. I also had responsibilities in term of coding choice, my manager did not really give me specific instructions about how to do it.

I think I learnt things here that will help me for my whole career. The amount of things I learnt about machine learning will definitely help me for my degree. And the financial knowledge and coding skills will help me throughout my career, especially if I decide to do it in an investment bank.

The atmosphere in the office was very nice. At first I thought the big open space would be a problem for me to work well and to remain concentrated all day, but in fact it didn't disturb me at all and it was very handy to have everyone near by to ask for help or even to chat around a coffee.

The overall internship was well set up, with some helpful training and presentations at the beginning, and then several talks and networking event throughout the internship to make some break in the daily work and learn things at the same time. I think I really enjoyed the format of the internship.

The firm invests a lot in interns in terms of personal training and development. We have a lot of training during the internship which are during our work hours. Moreover we have access to a learning platform, even berfor the start of the internship in order to get prepared for it.

Future employment prospects are really good within the organisation as everyone gets a chance to come back here for an internship or a graduate program. And they really help us in succeeding by providing us so many training. With the networking event, we also get the chance to speak to more senior employees and employees across all divisions which is really helpful have an insight into all employment possibilities.

The social atmosphere was really good at Morgan Stanley. Regular drinks were organized with my team and we had lunch together everyday which was really nice and made me feel part of the team for the time of my internship. We also had many events, including networking events, with all the interns which was really nice to get to know people going throw the same process as you.

In the area I worked in, the cost of living was fine (by London standards), and even less costly if living a bit further from work. The cost of socializing however was really expensive. Indeed pubs in canary wharf are really expensive, although it is possible to find some descent ones.