Summer Internship in Markets Review

Item: Summer Internship in Markets at J.P. Morgan
Rating: 4.9
Author: Anonymous

at J.P. Morgan

Internship (1 Month+)

Investment Banking

London

Review Submitted: August 2024

Overall Rating

4.9 /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

5/5 - Skills Development

4.5/5 - Support and Guidance

4.8/5 - Company Culture

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.

Day-to-day task were projects, shadowing and networking events.
For more details on projects, they include pitching trade ideas, implementing systematic strategies using Python, building a yield curve according to a model published by the FED, excel automation with Python/VBA and Excel functions.

Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?

The internship was mostly an assessment from the company / the team. The point as an intern is to learn how a trading floor makes money, to discover financial products, to network on the floor and in the end to get a full time offer if successful. I was not given much responsibility and was not involved in clients discussions as I need to pass regulations for that.

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?

Skills development: Organisation, Hard work, Professionalism, Presentation, Networking, Self-awareness

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?

5/5

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?

Strong support from HR with relevant answers consistently within a few minutes. Strong guidance from manager with weekly goals on Mondays, feedback sessions every two weeks. Strong cohesion between summer interns as well. I didn't feel any competition with other interns but rather friendship and support.

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?

4/5

Company Culture

What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?

Push us to be the best. Excellence. I was surprised to see that JPM's values are really implemented on a day-to-day. I could see that every day: diversity, inclusion, teamwork...

How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?

5/5

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?

4/5

Overall Experience

To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?

The internship was hard and very demanding. I was consistently out of my comfort zone. But I do believe this is the best way to learn and grow. In only 2 months, I learnt as much as I would have learnt in more than one year otherwise. I really recommend this internship to any ambitious student interested by a career in financial markets.