Technology Summer Intern Review

Item: Technology Summer Intern at HSBC
Rating: 4.6
Author: Anonymous

at HSBC

Internship (1 Month+)

Banking

London

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!

5/5 - Overview of Role

4.8/5 - Skills Development

5/5 - Support and Guidance

4/5 - Company Culture

5/5 - Overall Experience

4/5 - 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 various tasks in Risk in a team of 5 interns. Tasks ranging from cloud computing, writing Python scripts and building data pipelines.

Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?

Able to take ownership over tasks, organise own time, work with senior leaders, suggest changes to work streams

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?

Lots of new skills: data flow, building pipelines, generating fake data, new programming language. How to present technical updates to audience, how to write documentation, networking

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

4/5

Support and Guidance

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

Plenty, at least 2-3 meetings a day with more senior employees for guidance, updates

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?

Culture was very inclusive. Encouraged to reach out with any questions. Senior management had a lot of time for us. Felt valued even at a low level of the company