Overall Rating
2.8 /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!
2/5
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Overview of Role
2.5/5
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Skills Development
2.5/5
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Support and Guidance
4/5
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Company Culture
1.5/5
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Overall Experience
3/5
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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.
Given a project with other interns, mostly left to it. Had to set up meetings with people in the business and source data before writing a report and doing a presentation at the end. Also had Microsoft an Python training sessions, and other talks
Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?
No, everything we worked on was just internal intern stuff, so they could use any ideas we had if they were any good, but we couldn't have any impact ourselves in case we were useless. Felt a bit like busywork, or the kind of example projects given to schoolkids on insight days. Apparently in previously years, interns have worked in real teams, which would've been better
Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was
2/5
Skills Development
Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
Not really, just a better understanding of how big companies operate
How would you rate the training provided during your experience?
3/5
How would you rate your development of industry-specific skills during the experience?
3/5
How would you rate your development of personal / soft skills during the experience?
2/5
Please rate how these skills have helped you in your career development
2/5
Support and Guidance
How much support and guidance did you receive during your placement / internship?
Some, but mostly from people in the graduate scheme, so only had a year's more experience than us. They were useful in helping us get meetings etc. with people
How would you rate the support and guidance from your line manager?
2/5
How would you rate the support and guidance from the wider team?
3/5
Company Culture
What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?
Didn't really get a feel for it, as everything was online. They seem to be doing lots in the right direct (i.e. Women's network, LGBT+ network) but the senior management at the top were very explicit about how the reason behind it all is because it improves profit, rather than because they want to promote employee welfare for any other reason. Less senior people were much better though
How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?
4/5
How would you rate the social opportunities?
4/5
How would you rate the diversity initiatives?
4/5
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?
I didn't really, I found it quite boring and not at all what I was expecting - I was expecting an analyst role to involve analysis, data etc. Actually ended up basically doing marketing and market research, which was probably really good for the people who like that, but it wasn't my cup of tea, and the job advert was so vague I had no idea what I would be doing until the secondweek
Please rate your level of enjoyment on your placement / internship
1/5
Please rate how your experience met your expectations
2/5
Future Career Prospects
Please rate the future employment prospects at Centrica
3/5
Recommendations & Advice
Would you recommend Centrica to a friend?
No
What advice would you give to others applying to Centrica
Make sure you know what the job you're applying for actually entails, and if that job changes then re-evaluate. I applied for a 10-week, in-person analyst placement, and got a 7-week, fully virtual marketing/market research placement
