Trainee Assistant Buyer Review

My line manager organised a good mix of interesting and fun activities. Some days were more quiet/boring but that was to be expected as an intern.

Very valued. The whole team was very friendly and treated me like a proper member of the team, going above and beyond to show me the company. I was there for two team days which felt very familiar and friendly. I'll genuinely miss my colleagues.

My line manager was very supportive throughout the internship and went out of his way to make it a good experience for me. However, I didn't feel this was unanimous amongst the interns and it was luck of the draw how helpful your line manager was. Since your line manager made such a big impact on your overall eperience, I feel they could have been given more guidance and help from the central HR team.

Very mixed depending on the day. If something was planned for the day e.g. a farm visit or team day, it felt a very busy and productive day. However, there would be two or three days a week where I was doing very little. I would suggest anyone doing this internship take the initiative to find work to do. (Unless of course you like the idea of getting paid to read BBC news!)

Obviously in a company like Tesco where you're constantly dealing with numbers in the millions, they would be foolish to let you run the show. However, you're free to do a lot off your own back as long as you keep people closely updated and are willing to have help/supervision.

We had one specific development day for the interns which taught me skills which I imagine I will use throughout my career. On top of this the everyday business and IT skills I acquired will be priceless in my next job. I study Maths at University so very little will be directly applicable to my degree but if you're studying a business related course I imagine you will learn a lot.

A good mixture of professional and friendly. You could happily chat to people about things other than work and wear headphones if you wanted to. However, the building itself was not very nice for Group Food - you would expect Tesco to be able to afford better!

Again this very much depended on your line manager and so it could have been organised a lot better centrally.

Quite substantially, we had one intern development day and people from all over the company gave me their time to explain their part in the business. It definitely felt like the internship was set up as a precurser to the grad scheme and they hoped you would come back (if they liked you).

Very appealing, I have a friend in the grad scheme and he seems to be enjoying it a lot. They will give you a job at the end if you've done well over the 10 weeks

No. Very little was organised centrally and people, at least in the area I was in, did not seem keen to meet up after work. However, the are a lot of other interns if you're all willing to make the effort and it's nice to have some friendly faces for lunch.

I was living at home but the area is reasonably expensive. If you haven't been out in Herts you should know it has the prices of London and the social scene of an old people's home.

I've grown up in the area and can tell you it's very very bad. The only real option is to travel into London and accept you're not really going to be able to get home.

There were but you had to really look for them.