Biostatistics Placement Worker Review

Item: Biostatistics Placement Worker at Amgen
Rating: 4.7
Author: Anonymous

at Amgen

Placement (10 Months+)

Pharmaceutical

Cambridge

Review Submitted: August 2024

Overall Rating

4.7 /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!

5/5 - Overview of Role

4.8/5 - Skills Development

5/5 - Support and Guidance

4.5/5 - Company Culture

4.5/5 - Overall Experience

5/5 - Future Career Prospects

Overview of Role

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

Biostatistician role involved using SAS and R to perform statistical analysis on trial data and other trial-related data. A fair amount of quality control work (verifying program outputs). Variety of different projects.

Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?

Largely started off with quality control work so limited responsibility, but quickly progressed to tasks with more - e.g. leading a team working on a project.

Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was

5/5

Skills Development

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

Learnt basic SAS (opportunity to get a SAS qualification during the placement) and improved my R knowledge. Training related to the drug development and clinical trial process was offered, so gained some understanding of this as well.

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?

5/5

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

4/5

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

5/5

Support and Guidance

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

Generally very easy to reach out to people for help - regular catchups with manager, and team members on projects are normally approachable and helpful.

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?

5/5

Company Culture

What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?

Never had any issues with anyone at the company while I was there - found it a pleasant place to work.
Worth mentioning that most people work remotely most of the time so office can be quite empty at times - can make networking quite difficult but more convenience and flexibility as a trade-off.

How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?

5/5

How would you rate the social opportunities?

3/5

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?

I enjoyed the placement - I developed relevant skills and it was a pleasant place to work. The social side was somewhat lacking in the office but we were able to organise social events with the other placement students to compensate, and I also had the option to work remotely at times myself - the flexibility was very good.