Commercial Banking Summer Intern Review

Item: Commercial Banking Summer Intern at HSBC
Rating: 5
Author: Anonymous

at HSBC

Internship (1 Month+)

Commercial Banking

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Review Submitted: August 2021

Overall Rating

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!

5/5 - Overview of Role

5/5 - Skills Development

5/5 - Support and Guidance

5/5 - 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.

The job involved a lot of placement work, specific to each office, and collaborative work on two charity and volunteering projects. Most people have multiple calls a day, some involving clients and many catch up calls with colleagues.

Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?

The internship exceed my expectations when it came to responsibility - I was given a lot of important tasks that made me feel part of the team. Furthermore, we were given a few projects that revolved around real-life issues that could actually make a difference in the bank.

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?

I have developed immensely my social skills, ability to reach out to people. Moreover, due to my placement work I was able to further improve my Excel knowledge and work on highly numerical data sets.

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?

The bank does really care about its employees, and more importantly, their mental health. I had a few people, such as managers and grad support, that I could easily reach out to whenever I needed any support or had any issues.

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?

Diversity and Inclusion is something I care about when applying for jobs, I want to be surrounded by different people with different view of life and that was the case at HSBC. I had the chance to work with various colleagues with a diverse set of backgrounds, and felt excited and motivated to come to work every day. I learned a lot and managed to make a lot of new friends.