Marketing Associate Review

by Samsung Electronics

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Rating

4.2/5
  • Skills
    5.0
  • Responsibilities
    5.0
  • Support & Guidance
    5.0
  • Culture
    2.8
  • Your Impressions
    4.3

    Overview

  • 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
  • Dealing with HQ requests, delivering assets to subsidiaries, dealing with subsidiaries requests. Data analytics.


    Skills

  • 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
  • Excel skills, office etiquette, making PowerPoints, improving efficiency, working under pressure.


  • 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?
  • Dealing with emails from senior members of HQ, providing budget insights from markets, checking for brand errors and protecting the brand of the company


  • 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?
  • Lots of guidance, always invited to ask any questions or raise any doubts and never felt patronised for asking something that may seem obvious to a senior member of staff


  • 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?
  • As much as I loved working for this company, it can sometimes be stuck in the roots of its origins, which can be a toxic culture at times with overexpectations, meaning many employees have a poor work life balance, which can be demotivating


  • How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?
  • 3/5

  • How would you rate the social opportunities?
  • 3/5

  • How would you rate the diversity initiatives?
  • 2/5

  • How would you rate the charity, sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives?
  • 3/5

    Your Impressions

  • 6. To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?
  • I have enjoyed it and it has taught me a lot on how to work in an office, respect senior team members, and remain motivated and resilient.


  • 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 Samsung Electronics
  • 5/5

  • 7. Would you recommend Samsung Electronics to a friend?
  • Yes


  • 8. What advice would you give to others applying to Samsung Electronics
  • Be open minded and ready to adapt, the culture of Samsung is very different to that of western culture and you must be prepared to change your ways of thinking in order to succeed


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Details

Placement (10 Months+)

Marketing

London

July 2022


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