Undergraduate Industrial Placement Student Review

by AstraZeneca

Rating

4/5
  • Skills
    4.3
  • Responsibilities
    4.0
  • Support & Guidance
    4.0
  • Culture
    3.8
  • Your Impressions
    4.0

    Overview

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

    • Laboratory research, attending team meetings, data presentations

    Skills

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

    • Developed lab skills as had no previous experience. Also a lot more comfortable giving presentations and sharing my results with others.

  • 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?

    • 5/5
  • 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?

    • Mostly shown how to operate lab equipment once and then had responsibility to complete tasks alone. Could always ask other members of the lab team for help though

  • 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?

    • I had a supervisor who I was able to ask questions to if needed. I was also supported by the wider neuro team so always had someone around to ask

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

    • 4/5
  • How would you rate the support and guidance from the wider team?

    • 4/5

    Culture

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

    • Due to coronavirus the culture and atmosphere wasn't as lively as previous years and wasn't overly social but internal employee groups e.g. AZinspire provided opportunities to network and socialise

  • How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?

    • 3/5
  • How would you rate the social opportunities?

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

    • 4/5
  • 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?

    • I enjoyed my placement at AZ. I made great friends and feel like the work I did was meaningful. Due to the current pandemic, I thought the work aspect of my placement would be highly affected but AZ made sure we were still able to carry out the research we had planned

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

    • 4/5
  • Please rate how your experience met your expectations

    • 5/5
  • 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

    • Just be smiley and interested on the interview day, I definitely didn't know all the answers but if you ask questions and are polite then it goes a long way. Don't be afraid to get things wrong throughout the year because its so new and everyone does

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Details

Placement (10 Months+)

Science

East of England

August 2021

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