Summer Analyst Review

Item: Summer Analyst at HSBC
Rating: 4.6
Author: Anonymous

at HSBC

Internship (1 Month+)

Insurance and Risk Management, Banking

Hemel Hempstead

Review Submitted: August 2021

Overall Rating

4.6 /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

4.5/5 - 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.

Working on a range of projects, some individually that are for my specific placement, others as a group with my fellow intern cohort. I also help out with general tasks that need to be done in my team, in addition to these larger projects. I spend time using online resources provided by the bank to aid my personal development which they encourage quite a lot.

Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?

Yes, I was given a project to help inform future decisions on how one of the insurance product could be marketed to students with the intention that these changes get implemented after I leave. I was also behind several updates to the official HSBC website page and made changes in how they deliver financial education sessions to young people in schools.

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?

I have learnt basic coding from an online course I have taken. I have also strongly developed my interpersonal and presentational skills; this was from a range of factors - 1) talks given to us by educational speakers 2) from help and advice given from online learning resourses 3) delivering 4 presentations to key stakeholders.

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?

4/5

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

4/5

Support and Guidance

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

A great deal. I had a main line manager to report to who was very helpful and always made time for me, especially when I was finding my feet in the beginning. We were also given a 'grad coach' who was someone on the grad scheme who could help us from a different perspective as they were in a similar situation not so long ago. We also had another OPM manager to go to.

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 supportive and inclusive. People always made time for me if I had questions or wanted to speak to them (even quite senior members in the bank). I was not shouted at or told off for making mistakes and instead told how to improve in future by learning from them.

How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?

5/5

How would you rate the social opportunities?

4/5

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?

Very much so. I developed a lot personally and will feel confident going into a full time role in future. Even though it was from home, much effort was made to allow me to interact with fellow interns, several of whom I now have quite strong personal relationships with.