Investment Banking Intern Review

by Barclays

Best Student Employer

Rating

4.6/5
  • Skills
    4.8
  • Responsibilities
    4.0
  • Support & Guidance
    3.5
  • Culture
    4.8
  • Your Impressions
    5.0

    Overview

  • 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
  • Research and assistance for junior and senior members of the leveraged finance team


    Skills

  • 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
  • Research, working under pressure, time management, finance and accounting knowledge


  • 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?
  • 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?
  • responsibility was rather limited


  • 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?
  • definitely enough, colleagues were always available for support and interns were made to feel needed


  • How would you rate the support and guidance from your line manager?
  • 2/5

  • 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?
  • much better than expected, regular team events, good atmosphere, most important things were helping each other and standing as a unit when interacting with clients


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

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

  • 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?
  • very much


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

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

  • Please rate the future employment prospects at Barclays
  • 5/5

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


  • 8. What advice would you give to others applying to Barclays
  • be yourself during the interview, don't spend too much time on deciding which group you want to join because they're mostly allocated randomly, use the time allocated with seniors wisely to ask questions, join all available social events


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Details

Internship (1 Month+)

Investment Banking

London

October 2021


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