Wealth & Personal Banking Summer Internship Review

by HSBC

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.
  • I was involved in a team related to financing. I was given quite a lot of responsability and independence to do what I felt correct. Even managed to own some parts of the project and had multiple meetings per day. Multiple times a week we had webinars and informative sessions that touched a wide variety of topics.


    Skills

  • 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
  • I developed a lot of presentation and communication skills as well as stakeholder management.


  • 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?
  • Yes, I was given quite a lot of responsability, my team trusted in my abilities.


  • 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?
  • A lot, interns have 2 different types of graduate mentors as well as a placement manager. Help is provided anytime is needed.


  • 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?
  • Very relaxed and the culture is very open. Everyone is very nice and approachable without depending on their level of seniority.


  • 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?
  • I really enjoyed it, learnt a lot, got good exposure to the industry and met some very smart and interesting people.


  • 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 HSBC
  • 5/5

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


  • 8. What advice would you give to others applying to HSBC
  • Be your authentic self and have an open mind, it is something that HSBC really values.


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Details

Internship (1 Month+)

Banking, Retail Banking

London

August 2023


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