Operations Summer Analyst Review

by Barclays

Best Student Employer

Rating

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

    Overview

  • 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
  • Attending meetings, preparing slides, analysing data and investigating it, creating and maintaining databases


    Skills

  • 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
  • Excel skills have been developed as well as other applications within Microsoft Office. Communication and team working skills also had to be developed. We were also provided extensive training on other skills


  • 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 given a lot of responsibility - running and managing my own projects, investigating issues and personally presenting them to directors


  • 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?
  • Line manager and mentors / buddies / other colleagues provided a lot of guidance and help wherever i needed it


  • 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?
  • Lots of events going on, Barclays provide a lot of benefits that creates a great culture and shows their commitment to their pillars that are core to the organisation


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

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

  • 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?
  • My team and manager were great, the culture of the organisation was fantastic and far exceeded my expectations of working in the finance sector. I would definitely be committed to barclays going forward


  • 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
  • make sure to have done extensive research around the organisation before interviewing, and do a lot of practice assessments. Be yourself, and show how you align with the corporate values


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Details

Internship (1 Month+)

Banking

Scotland

July 2022


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