Oncology Biometrics: Information Practice Review
at AstraZeneca
Placement (10 Months+)
Data Analysis
macclesfield
Review Submitted: June 2025
Overall Rating
4.5 /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
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Overview of Role
5/5
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Skills Development
4.5/5
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Support and Guidance
4.8/5
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Company Culture
4.5/5
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Overall Experience
2/5
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Future Career Prospects
Overview of Role
Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
My role at AstraZeneca was within the Oncology Information Practice team, which assists other teams with finding information in a streamlined way. Example stakeholders I worked with included, data science (to test their AI information extraction tool), clinical teams (to find information sources about specific cancer mutations) and statistics (to build an AI tool seen below). I learnt a lot about cancer (specifically haemato-oncology), clinical trials, AI and python.
Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?
yes I led a python project for demonstration in an internal conference and the data science symposium
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?
Python, AI, LangChain, Networking, Streamlit
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?
a lot, the team were very nice and all placement students are given mentors.
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?
really good, there are lots of opputinities to connect and network for early careers individuals and there are ERGs to build communities and there is a very fun, big christmas party.
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?
a big extent, a great balance between learning new skills and connecting/ being social, only downside is the workload is either very high or very low and can get boring.
Please rate your level of enjoyment on your placement / internship
4/5
Please rate how your experience met your expectations
5/5
Future Career Prospects
Please rate the future employment prospects at AstraZeneca
2/5
Recommendations & Advice
Would you recommend AstraZeneca to a friend?
Yes
What advice would you give to others applying to AstraZeneca
its an amazing experience where you will learn a lot but its a big company so it you want a guaranteed return offer, chances are you're not going to find it here.
