Data & Analytics Intern Review

On a daily basis I would have a catch up with my manager for 15-30min, to catch up and go through any issues I was having regarding my placement project. I would then join team meetings called stand-ups where everyone explains what they're working on for the day/week/sprint. Following this I would work on the 3 things I mentioned below. Most days I would join internship events where leaders of different parts of the bank share what they do and how they got where they are. I would also join coffee clubs to meet people from different parts of the bank. You could also join any activities/events that the bank is hosting. I joined a Hackathon on designing our own functional API. Work: 1. Working on a placement project with my assigned team: I was working on automising their conversation data processing pipelines 2. Working on an internship business project: Hyper-personalising customers banking experience 3. Self-led learning: using their Data Academy and Data Camp learning resources to learn essential software skills

I have learnt many new skills: Data engineering Skills: StreamSets, StreamSets SDK, Python object oriented programming Presentation Skills: PowerPoint, Confluence, Figma Organisation documentation: Confluence, Bitbucket (Git) How a bank works - All the different departments that make up a make up a retail & commercial bank: Retail, Commercial, Fraud, Climate, Markets, Risk, EFX, Marketing, Software Engineering (Front-End, Back-End), Digital X (D&A, DE and Data Science)

Yes. The placement project with my assigned team was on automising their conversation data processing pipelines. It was a project that they are very interested in implementing bank-wide, however, arent able to work on at the moment due to busy schedule and required project deadlines

I have a call with my manager and team everyday to go through any blockers. Also early careers team arranges a call with interns bi-weekly to check in on us. The support is great

Superrrrrrrrr friendly everyone wants to help and are willing to help regardless of their position in the bank.

I loved it. Would highly recommend it anyone with a passion for learnign about the power of Data!

Yes

Take every opportunity you get even if you think you're not qualified for it (you'll learn the most if you fall under the latter) Your behavioural skills are valued a lot higher than your technical abilities, overall if you are a good person and display the companies CPC's you are on track for securing the internship at NatWest!