Actuary summer internship Review

Item: Actuary summer internship at BDO
Rating: 4.8
Author: Anonymous

at BDO

Internship (1 Month+)

Actuary

London

Review Submitted: July 2025

Overall Rating

4.8 /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!

4/5 - Overview of Role

4.8/5 - Skills Development

5/5 - Support and Guidance

4.8/5 - Company Culture

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.

Shadowing the actuary team on their summer projects, whilst also receiving actuary specific training. Furthermore, we assisted in some basic tasks the team required help on

Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?

Some responsibility on some grunt work, however this did involve regular checks to make sure everything was completed to a high standard

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?

Excel related skills, power BI

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?

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

5/5

Support and Guidance

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

The team were extremely helpful in supporting our work. Any little query we had, they were more than happy to drop what they were doing to help and answer. Furthermore, my manager regularly checked up on me to make sure I felt supported