Finance Summer Intern Review

Item: Finance Summer Intern at Barclays
Rating: 4.4
Author: Anonymous

at Barclays

Internship (1 Month+)

Banking

London

Review Submitted: July 2022

Overall Rating

4.4 /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!

4/5 - Overview of Role

4.3/5 - Skills Development

5/5 - Support and Guidance

4.8/5 - Company Culture

3.5/5 - 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 core of the role is financial analysis with some accounting and modelling. Day-to-day involves team meetings, personal work and firm-wide sessions and trainings.

Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?

Not much. Was doing rotations so could not deep-dive into one area with much responsibility given to me.

Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was

4/5

Skills Development

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

Learned financial modelling, accounting and improved Microsoft office proficiency

How would you rate the training provided during your experience?

4/5

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

4/5

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?

Everyone is ready to support. Received training from a dedicated team. Line manager was always open to help. Had a mentor and a grad buddy. Wider team always offered support.

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?

There are weekly sessions on a variety of topics from diversity and inclusion to ESG. Everyone makes an effort to catch up with you daily. There are also a variety of networks one can join to be part of a wider community.

How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?

5/5

How would you rate the social opportunities?

4/5

How would you rate the diversity initiatives?

5/5

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

5/5

Overall Experience

To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?

The team and company culture were great. I am not sure the work is entirely for me but there are plenty of opportunities to move to more well-suited roles.