Technology Analyst Review

by Barclays

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Rating

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

    Overview

  • 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
  • Daily tasks included sending out emails, joining meetings (daily and weekly), and working on smaller projects. An individual project did include working with statistics from the previous data of the department to see which areas were having the most failed changes and possible solutions.


    Skills

  • 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
  • During this time, I was able to build my leadership skills by holding some of my own meetings and presenting my findings from my projects. I also was able to learn more about the banking industry through meetings and 1 on 1's


  • 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?
  • I was depended one to send out a lot of daily and weekly information, along with working on real-life problems.


  • 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?
  • They were very supportive and helped me to easily integrate into teams. My line manager provided me with a lot of people that I was able to schedule meetings and learn more about what they do and the banking industry. I also was giving daily stand-up calls which were friendly casual chats, these were very welcoming and made it easy to ask for help too.


  • 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?
  • Amazing, I had a great experience and lots of support in my role. I really enjoyed the work I did and the mindset of the workers there, they were motivative but also helped to push me to reach my full potential


  • 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?
  • 4/5

    Your Impressions

  • 6. To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?
  • I really enjoyed my internship and am hoping to go back after my degree


  • 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
  • To really learn about Barclay's core values, they are very important and you can see in the company through the employees how it is beneficial


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Details

Internship (1 Month+)

East Midlands

October 2021


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