Data Scientist Review

by AstraZeneca

Rating

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

    Overview

  • 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
  • Writing code to produce analyses of a variety of chemistry-related subjects. Also upskilling colleagues in code and Power BI and other data tools.


    Skills

  • 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
  • Python, Power BI, Communication skills, Presenting skills, soft skills like talking to stakeholders.


  • 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?
  • 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 given a lot of responsibilities and one of those was to redesign and run out the tier-board process in which people update people on their projects to the team.


  • 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?
  • I met up with my supervisor every week and she was very approachable and made it very easy to ask any questions which has definitely helped my development


  • 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?
  • Very social atmosphere and everyone felt very welcoming but people seem to be very stretched in their work and overworked


  • 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 enjoyed every part of working on my placement year and I have grown and found out a lot about myself through this year


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

  • Please rate how your experience met your expectations
  • 3/5

  • Please rate the future employment prospects at AstraZeneca
  • 4/5

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


  • 8. What advice would you give to others applying to AstraZeneca
  • Be yourself


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Details

Placement (10 Months+)

Computer Science

North West

July 2022


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