Process Engineering Summer Intern Review

by AstraZeneca

Rating

4.8/5
  • Skills
    4.8
  • Responsibilities
    5.0
  • Support & Guidance
    5.0
  • Culture
    4.8
  • Your Impressions
    4.7

    Overview

  • 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
  • investigating the effects of altering different settings on one of the pieces of equipment used in tablet production and measuring different qualities of the product to do this. Involves being in the lab fairly often as well as in the office and in meetings to further understand what is going on in the process.


    Skills

  • 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
  • further developed my lab skills and report/presentation writing skills. Learnt how to use various pieces of equipment as well as how to do modelling.


  • 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?
  • 4/5

  • 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, given a lot of different responsibilities but also a lot of support to be able to keep up with this. Doing potentially important work was a very good experience.


  • 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, always someone to help with whatever you're doing. But also having freedom to get on with stuff yourself.


  • 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?
  • Really great place to work, good work atmosphere and good people.


  • 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?
  • 4/5

    Your Impressions

  • 6. To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?
  • Really enjoyed it, the work is really interesting and the people are great. Really great experience in industry and learnt some valuable skills for the future.


  • 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 AstraZeneca
  • 4/5

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


  • 8. What advice would you give to others applying to AstraZeneca
  • I'd definitely encourage people to apply, I think just do your best to show the skills you already have and the research you've done into the values of the company.


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Details

Internship (1 Month+)

Chemical Engineering

North West

August 2022


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