Trading analyst (FIC division) Review

by Deutsche Bank

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Rating

3.6/5
  • Skills
    4.0
  • Responsibilities
    5.0
  • Support & Guidance
    4.0
  • Culture
    2.3
  • Your Impressions
    4.3

    Overview

  • 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
  • Learning about financial products, mock trading, python / coding, data analysis, final presentation


    Skills

  • 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
  • Learnt Excel VBA, learned about financial products and about macro markets, learned interpersonal skills


  • How would you rate the training provided during your experience?
  • 3/5

  • 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
  • 5/5

    Responsibilities

  • 3. Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?
  • Yes. I was given my own data analysis project to look at the desks' portfolio risk


  • Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was
  • 5/5

    Support & Guidance

  • 4. How much support and guidance did you receive during your placement / internship?
  • We were given buddies who were graduates as well as mentors who were directors or managing directors to help us before and during the internship. We were given clear managers who were very helpful in navigating joining the desk and giving meaningful work


  • 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?
  • Very helpful and friendly. It was harder because of covid, even though we were in person we did not have any events organised by the company which made it harder in the earlier stages to interact with other interns. However everyone I met was nice


  • How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?
  • 3/5

  • How would you rate the social opportunities?
  • 2/5

  • How would you rate the diversity initiatives?
  • 2/5

  • How would you rate the charity, sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives?
  • 2/5

    Your Impressions

  • 6. To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?
  • I enjoyed it a lot. I felt like I learnt a lot while I was there and am hoping to join in 2022.


  • Please rate your level of enjoyment on your placement / internship
  • 4/5

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

  • Please rate the future employment prospects at Deutsche Bank
  • 5/5

  • 7. Would you recommend Deutsche Bank to a friend?
  • Yes


  • 8. What advice would you give to others applying to Deutsche Bank
  • Reach out to HR directly for more information on the interview process as they were very helpful when I was applying. Additionally, reach out to previous interns on linked in as they will know the most. I joined honestly because it was one of the last internships still accepting applicants however I am glad I did


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Details

Internship (1 Month+)

Investment Banking

London

September 2021


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