Data Science Intern Review

by King

Rating

4.5/5
  • Skills
    4.3
  • Responsibilities
    3.0
  • Support & Guidance
    4.5
  • Culture
    5.0
  • Your Impressions
    4.7

    Overview

  • 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
  • Working on a statistical model, writing lots of code and experiments. Various meetings


    Skills

  • 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
  • Lots of python coding skills, lots of practice with BigQuery (SQL) which I had never used before coming here.


  • 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?
  • 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
  • 4/5

    Responsibilities

  • 3. Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?
  • Full control over the project I was working on. I could explore pretty much anything I thought was a good addition and aligned with the project goals


  • 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?
  • Regular meetings with my managers where I got feedback and input on the work I was doing. There was no formal training at all on the internship - just given a project to work on and learned on the job although it was easy to ask for help


  • 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?
  • 4/5

    Culture

  • 5. What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?
  • All the people were incredibly friendly, helpful and welcoming. Lots of work events, socials and other fun things going on. Lots of people seem to really like working here


  • 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 had a very fun time and learnt a lot from it. I might have liked a bit more structured training especially at the start of the internship, but I worked on an interesting project and learnt a lot from the other people on the team


  • 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 King
  • 4/5

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


  • 8. What advice would you give to others applying to King
  • Its a friendly place, go for it


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Details

Internship (1 Month+)

Data Science

London

September 2023


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