Summer analyst Review

by Barclays

Best Student Employer

Rating

4.5/5
  • Skills
    5.0
  • Responsibilities
    4.0
  • Support & Guidance
    4.5
  • Culture
    4.8
  • Your Impressions
    3.7

    Overview

  • 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
  • As an intern, I was facilitating the tasks of my manager and simultaneously learning about financial markets. I developed tools that helped the traders in one of my rotations, as well. Alongside this, I presented a trade idea to the traders as well.


    Skills

  • 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
  • Developed my presentation skills and also improved my python programming skills. Along with this, I learnt about the FX markets and how macroeconomic events affect this market


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

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

  • 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
  • 5/5

    Responsibilities

  • 3. Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?
  • As an intern, I was mostly facilitating others but I really enjoyed giving the trade idea pitch and also my presentation on a new project in on of my presentation.


  • 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 was in touch with my managers and my buddy during the internship, who all provided me required support. Also, I made good friends within my intern class


  • 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?
  • 5/5

    Culture

  • 5. What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?
  • Barclays has a culture of innovation and everybody was discussed new ideas alongside providing advice to newcomers like me to have successful career Due to covid, the internship was virtual so my exposure to atmosphere in restricted but I enjoyed all the events that were held during the internship.


  • How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?
  • 4/5

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

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

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

    Your Impressions

  • 6. To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?
  • I enjoyed the internship as I was exposed to new concepts and projects which has broadened my skillset. Furthermore I made good friends from my intern class which added to the enjoyment greatly.


  • 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 Barclays
  • 3/5

  • 7. Would you recommend Barclays to a friend?
  • Yes


  • 8. What advice would you give to others applying to Barclays
  • I would advice them to carefully understand the Barclays values and also think about how they can tailor their application so that they are aligned to these values


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Details

Internship (1 Month+)

Commercial Banking

London

October 2021


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