Process Engineer Review

by AstraZeneca

Rating

3/5
  • Skills
    3.8
  • Responsibilities
    3.0
  • Support & Guidance
    3.5
  • Culture
    2.5
  • Your Impressions
    2.3

    Overview

  • 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
  • Worked on projects providing engineering support. Daily tasks varied a lot depending on where the work was at. I did a lot of lab work as well as meetings and analysis


    Skills

  • 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
  • I have developed modelling skills and my presentation skills as well as learning new lab techniques


  • How would you rate the training provided during your experience?
  • 4/5

  • 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
  • 4/5

    Responsibilities

  • 3. Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?
  • Yes, I led my main project and was given a lot of independence around what I did day-to-day


  • Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was
  • 3/5

    Support & Guidance

  • 4. How much support and guidance did you receive during your placement / internship?
  • A good amount, my supervisor was very helpful but I lacked any team manager and higher management support


  • How would you rate the support and guidance from your line manager?
  • 3/5

  • 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?
  • Poor. It was quiet and many people worked from home due to Covid-19


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

  • How would you rate the social opportunities?
  • 1/5

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

  • 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?
  • Not much, I will not be coming back to this company


  • Please rate your level of enjoyment on your placement / internship
  • 2/5

  • Please rate how your experience met your expectations
  • 2/5

  • Please rate the future employment prospects at AstraZeneca
  • 3/5

  • 7. Would you recommend AstraZeneca to a friend?
  • No


  • 8. What advice would you give to others applying to AstraZeneca
  • The application is easy but will be scrutinised a lot so take your time with your answers. Do not worry about the technical interview, it is not designed to be extremely difficult


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Details

Placement (10 Months+)

Engineering

North West

September 2022


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