Summer Intern Review

The internship seemed a little disorganised with managers often too busy to find work for interns. Despite my team knowing I would be there for 10 weeks I was given no major project and spent a lot of time with nothing to do.

The work I was given was often admin related and not challenging in the slightest. Managers often seemed too busy to help younger members of the team.

There was a support system whereby an individual from a different department would be on hand to help interns with any problems and this was useful yet support from within the team was often lacking.

A lot of the time I had no main tasks each day and was left to do little bits to help out. Organised meetings and presentations helped to fill the day.

I was left to do very junior work but this could be understandable due to the technical nature of the work managers were undertaking.

As always an internship is useful in developing communication, organisation and presentation skills and these help with my degree and will also aid me in future life.

Work was very serious and everyone seemed very busy with long working hours and little work-life balance.

There were weekly meetings for the interns as well as an induction week which was helpful. Exit meetings and feedback were provided yet from the work side the setup was not great with interns often left with nothing to do.

Interns were paid the same wage as a graduate yet were not given the same training a graduate would receive. Presentations from directors aided our understanding of the business yet these seemed to be insufficient.

Although offered a job there was no flexibility with start dates and so I had to turn it down. The refusal to negotiate an offer made some interns feel as though they were not valued.

Interns would often meet for lunch or have a drink after work yet the social scene for more senior members of the bank seemed to be non existent.

London is very expensive in terms of rent and going out.

Around the office there was a few places within walking distance yet most nightclubs and bars were better accessed through use of the tube.

I played football once but activities outside of work were not promoted to a great extent. It was often left to interns to organise activities by themselves. There was also a spots day spent helping children from local schools.