Intern- Group Operations Review

Unforutnate not to be based in the London office and thus did not experience any of the 'social side' of the LLoyds internship. The work was occasionally interesting and stretched me, although the majoirty of the time was relatively boring. My team were very supportive and friendly, and there was a very nice office atmosphere.

Early on the internship, I completed some good work and was clearly aprpeciated within my team. However, a lot of the time I was given little responsibility and occasionally felt as if I was a bit of a 'spare tool' being based around.

LBG puts a lot of emphasis on personal development. Weekly meetings with my line manager to discuss my development goals, along with various online development tools really helped during my time at LLoyds.

Generally only had half a day's work to complete. When approaching my line manager for additional responsibilty, was often told there are no further tasks I can help with. This was a little disappointing.

Given responsibility to contact and maintain relations with senior management, along with various stakeholders within the business. I was also running a small project during my internship which, when I finally produced the results, handed them over to my line manager who took my word they were correct and used them. I was really impressed with my teams willingness to hand over responsibility.

Friendly and relaxed. Hours were quite flexible, since I was in a back office role, and the majoirty of team members were also willing to help out and assist if I had any queries or problems.

Often not given enough work. When my line manager went on holiday, I was not properly passed on to another team and found I had very little to do on a day-to-day basis.

Weekly meetings with my line manager, and access to online development tools, along with Webinars to explain the basics behind banking.

From a financial perspective, the grad scheme is VERY appealing. A great starting salary of 28k (+ London allowance if based in London), with a 3k signing on bonus. After the 2 year grad program there is an opporutnity to apply for job roles commanding a salary in the 30k region. On top of the salary, LBG provides heaps of benefits to its workers, namely: 4% additional 'flex' salary for the purchase of health care, additional holiday, and various other benefits £200k Mortgage at BoE base rate Bonus scheme Generous ShareSave scheme However, I have not particularly enojyed the work I am doing here. So I feel there is a trade off between job satisfaction, and a high salary + employee benefits

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Reasonable.

Great fun!

Due to flexible working hours, I managed to maintain my involvement in various clubs outside of work, as well as engage in generall fitness e.g. running and the gym. There was never any overtime requirements over the weekends so I had every weekend to get involved in activites outside of work.