Biostatistics Industrial Placement Review

by GSK

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Rating

2.9/5
  • Skills
    3.3
  • Responsibilities
    3.0
  • Support & Guidance
    2.5
  • Culture
    3.3
  • Your Impressions
    2.3

    Overview

  • 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.

    • Biostatistician- involves helping teammates on projects, helping manager with duties, learning coding and statistical programming languages, learning about disease areas

    Skills

  • 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?

    • Provided with training courses in R and SAS to improve technical expertise. Opportunity to improve time management skills as various priorities have to be balanced, which also helps organisation skills. Communication skills improved through emails, video calls, in person networking

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

    • 3/5
  • How would you rate your development of industry-specific skills during the experience?

    • 2/5
  • 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

    • 4/5

    Responsibilities

  • 3. Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?

    • A bit harder to obtain responsibility as everything is very confidential or requires a lot of expertise and industry knowledge

  • 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?

    • Assigned a 'buddy' who is a means of support alongside manager. Both provide feedback on what I have done well and what I need to improve

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

    • 2/5
  • How would you rate the support and guidance from the wider team?

    • 3/5

    Culture

  • 5. What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?

    • Very friendly and enjoyable! Everyone is always happy to help and looking out for each other- super collaborative!

  • How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?

    • 4/5
  • How would you rate the social opportunities?

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

    • 3/5
  • 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?

    • Underwhelming- I would have liked more productive and proactive opportunities, e.g., communicating with patients and clients as advertised in job role.

  • 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 GSK

    • 3/5
  • 7. Would you recommend GSK to a friend?

    • Yes

  • 8. What advice would you give to others applying to GSK

    • Research into the company and see if their work culture is something you can adapt to. Look into the different research areas and select what is best suited to you and your needs and skills

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Details

Placement (10 Months+)

Pharmaceutical, Medicine, Research, Science, Consumer Products/FMCG

South East

April 2023

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