Data Modelling Engineer Review

Item: Data Modelling Engineer at GSK
Rating: 3.8
Author: Anonymous

at GSK

Placement (10 Months+)

Pharmaceutical

Brentford

Review Submitted: June 2024

Overall Rating

3.8 /5

The Overall Rating is the average of all the ratings given in each category. We take those individual ratings and combine them into one final score!

4/5 - Overview of Role

3.3/5 - Skills Development

4/5 - Support and Guidance

4.8/5 - Company Culture

2.5/5 - Overall Experience

4/5 - Future Career Prospects

Overview of Role

Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.

Mostly editing the models to get a more specific output. Due to the models design, they had multiple different ways of presenting waste data. Different sites also had different ways of dealing with and categorising waste. Often edits requested would need some additional data from the site, which can take some time.

Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?

Yes, the first model i built was for the site that produces the most waste in the network. The second one was for a site that I was able to visit and I built this one solely by myself so was given free reign to built it as i pleased.

Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was

4/5

Skills Development

Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?

Prior to starting i had thought that i was proficient in excel due to my using it a lot at university. I quickly realised that i was no where near as good as i thought so did a course which got me up to speed.

How would you rate the training provided during your experience?

4/5

How would you rate your development of industry-specific skills during the experience?

3/5

How would you rate your development of personal / soft skills during the experience?

3/5

Please rate how these skills have helped you in your career development

3/5

Support and Guidance

How much support and guidance did you receive during your placement / internship?

I always knew help was there if I needed it. I can't recall needing it much but was very good when i asked for it.

How would you rate the support and guidance from your line manager?

4/5

How would you rate the support and guidance from the wider team?

4/5

Company Culture

What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?

Much friendlier than i imagined.

How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?

4/5

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

Overall Experience

To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?

When I was busy I enjoyed the process of building the models, but there was a lot of waiting around for data from sites which often made the process tedious. Also the data would mostly never be in the desired format, so there was a lot of data formatting which was probably the most dull part of the job.