Compliance summer analyst Review

by Barclays

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Rating

4.5/5
  • Skills
    4.3
  • Responsibilities
    4.0
  • Support & Guidance
    4.0
  • 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.
  • Shadowed various team members, sat in on meetings, took part in a group project where we had to make a presentation about what compliance was.


    Skills

  • 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
  • Excel and PowerPoint skills vastly improved aswell as overall knowledge of how banks work


  • 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?
  • 4/5

  • How would you rate your development of personal / soft skills during the experience?
  • 3/5

  • 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 lots of independent tasks to carry out early on and was expected to use my imitative about completing things I was new to.


  • 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?
  • There were always team members available to help when needed.


  • 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 friendly and chilled, people wouldn’t get mad if you made small mistakes they were just ready to help you improve, all managers and team members were very nice and inclusive.


  • 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?
  • I enjoyed it a lot, it wasn’t too stressful but it wasn’t boring either.


  • 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
  • Prepare for the interview and research your individual area of the bank you’re applying for.


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Details

Internship (1 Month+)

Banking

Scotland

October 2021


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