Industrial Placement student Review

Item: Industrial Placement student at AstraZeneca
Rating: 4.6
Author: Anonymous

at AstraZeneca

Placement (10 Months+)

Science

Cambridge

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!

3/5 - Overview of Role

4.8/5 - Skills Development

5/5 - Support and Guidance

4.5/5 - 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.

The job involved a lot of protein purification and protein quality control to deliver the proteins for other laboratories around the organization. I worked in the large team of more than 20 scientists that was later divided into three teams.

Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?

Not very much. My colleagues understood that I am just a student and supported me, they were interested not only in the result of the experiments but also in my development.

Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was

3/5

Skills Development

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

New skills: DNA encoded library screening, protein characterization, dynamic light scattering, differential scanning fluorimetry.
I developed my coding skills because one of the projects involved programming.

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?

4/5

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?

I received a lot of support and guidance, my colleagues were interested not only in the result of the study but also in my personal development. I was well supervised. There was even the course that helped me to boost my programming skills.

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?

The general atmosphere is supportive for students ( although it is hard to judge about the entire organization when you have worked there just in one team for one year). There are personal development courses that help you to achieve your professional goal. So you spend 90 of time to get to the result of your study and approximately 10% of time is dedicated for personal development, which is very good for early career development.