Summer Associate Review

Item: Summer Associate at Lloyds Banking Group
Rating: 1
Author: Anonymous

at Lloyds Banking Group

Internship (1 Month+)

Commercial Banking

london

Review Submitted: August 2021

Overall Rating

1 /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!

1/5 - Overview of Role

1/5 - Skills Development

1/5 - Support and Guidance

1/5 - Company Culture

1/5 - Overall Experience

1/5 - Future Career Prospects

Overview of Role

Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.

Prepare a newsletter in the morning which contains a summary of the most important news which takes about an hour
Ask your Line manager for more work
wait 3 hours for a response
be told they will send something over soon
after an hour if you're lucky you'll get some useless administrative task if unlucky I'll get an email the next day apologising for not sending anything.

Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?

Regardless of all attempts to gain more responsibility by asking for more work no real work is given. There seems to be no interest in the intern obtaining any value

Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was

1/5

Skills Development

Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?

Not really, the only value skill wise I received form the internship come from Linkedin learning to which i got free access. No value whatsoever from LLoyds Banking Group itself.

How would you rate the training provided during your experience?

1/5

How would you rate your development of industry-specific skills during the experience?

1/5

How would you rate your development of personal / soft skills during the experience?

1/5

Please rate how these skills have helped you in your career development

1/5

Support and Guidance

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

There is no support or guidance during the internship. There is a lot of BS ESG and mental health focused PR but its only superficial

How would you rate the support and guidance from your line manager?

1/5

How would you rate the support and guidance from the wider team?

1/5

Company Culture

What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?

The whole company seems bent on being mediocre. There is no culture of excellence just cruising and hardly trying. I guess the people are friendly but that doesn't help when youre just wasting your time for 8 hours a day

How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?

1/5

How would you rate the social opportunities?

1/5

How would you rate the diversity initiatives?

1/5

How would you rate the charity, sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives?

1/5

Overall Experience

To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?

I did not enjoy it at all. The line manager does not care if you obtain any value or do any interesting work, all that is important is that you appear online on Microsoft Teams for your prescribed work day. The internship is a waste of time, it seems important to secure an internship but if its one at lloyds then do literally anything else as there is no value apart from the name