Risk Management Intern Review

by Morgan Stanley

Rating

4.6/5
  • Skills
    4.8
  • Responsibilities
    4.0
  • Support & Guidance
    4.5
  • Culture
    4.3
  • Your Impressions
    5.0

    Overview

  • 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
  • Modelling and quantifying risk using various risk measures. Lots of statistics and programming, and a lot of meetings to plan things.


    Skills

  • 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
  • Developing my technical skills and soft skills. Large improvements in my ability to code and to talk to others in a professional manner. Also it was a good experience being in the office and working a 9-5


  • 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?
  • 4/5

  • 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?
  • I was given my own project so I wasn't given a huge amount of responsibility. I had the chance to code a few components of the real thing so I still felt like I was contributing


  • Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was
  • 4/5

    Support & Guidance

  • 4. How much support and guidance did you receive during your placement / internship?
  • A lot, my team was in most days and my managers were very good. This depends on the team you are with, some teams are very international or WFH a lot


  • 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?
  • Good, everyone was nice and supportive. There was never any real conflicts or things of that nature. My hours in risk management were always pretty reasonable, 9-5.30 / 9-6 most days.


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

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

  • How would you rate the diversity initiatives?
  • 4/5

  • 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?
  • I enjoyed it a lot, I definitely want to come back.


  • 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 Morgan Stanley
  • 5/5

  • 7. Would you recommend Morgan Stanley to a friend?
  • Yes


  • 8. What advice would you give to others applying to Morgan Stanley
  • Work hard and ask questions


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Details

Internship (1 Month+)

Data Science, Investment Banking

London

August 2023


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