Industrial Placement Student Review

by AstraZeneca

Rating

3.9/5
  • Skills
    4.0
  • Responsibilities
    4.0
  • Support & Guidance
    5.0
  • Culture
    3.8
  • Your Impressions
    3.0

    Overview

  • 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.

    • Typically, data analysis and experiments run side-by-side. You also spent a considerable time in meetings with your supervisor and wider team.

    Skills

  • 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?

    • Data handling and data analysis skills. Presentation skills because there are a lot of opportunities to present if you want to although there's no pressure. Organisational and time management skills to make sure my experiments run smoothly.

  • How would you rate the training provided during your experience?

    • 4/5
  • How would you rate your development of industry-specific skills during the experience?

    • 4/5
  • How would you rate your development of personal / soft skills during the experience?

    • 4/5
  • Please rate how these skills have helped you in your career development

    • 4/5

    Responsibilities

  • 3. Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?

    • Yes. As soon as I was trained in anything, I was then doing it completely independently. I would set up and run my experiments independently, although you can always ask for help or a refresh if you need. I was even shadowed sometimes, so you're definitely treated as a colleague, not just a student!

  • Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was

    • 4/5

    Support & Guidance

  • 4. How much support and guidance did you receive during your placement / internship?

    • A lot! My supervisors were really kind and always on hand to help out or show me how do something (multiple times if I needed!).

  • How would you rate the support and guidance from your line manager?

    • 5/5
  • How would you rate the support and guidance from the wider team?

    • 5/5

    Culture

  • 5. What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?

    • Very chill and calm. People are work-focused, but the teams are also really supportive and lovely!

  • How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?

    • 4/5
  • How would you rate the social opportunities?

    • 4/5
  • How would you rate the diversity initiatives?

    • 3/5
  • How would you rate the charity, sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives?

    • 4/5

    Your Impressions

  • 6. To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?

    • It was really interesting and I got to develop as a scientist

  • Please rate your level of enjoyment on your placement / internship

    • 3/5
  • Please rate how your experience met your expectations

    • 3/5
  • Please rate the future employment prospects at AstraZeneca

    • 3/5
  • 7. Would you recommend AstraZeneca to a friend?

    • Yes

  • 8. What advice would you give to others applying to AstraZeneca

    • Stay calm on the assessment day! It usually involves some fun team-building activity, followed by two interviews. The first interview is a soft-skills one, and the second is science content based.

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Details

Placement (10 Months+)

Science

North East

July 2021

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