Analytical, Structural and Chromatography Internship Review

Item: Analytical, Structural and Chromatography Internship at AstraZeneca
Rating: 4.1
Author: Anonymous

at AstraZeneca

Internship (1 Month+)

Pharmaceutical

Cambridge

Review Submitted: August 2025

Overall Rating

4.1 /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!

4/5 - Overview of Role

4.3/5 - Skills Development

5/5 - Support and Guidance

4/5 - Company Culture

3.5/5 - 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.

learning applications of NMR and LCMS in pharma industry

Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?

fairly, given a project and lots of individual tasks to work on, however not allowed unsupervised in the lab

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?

Using software packages such as ACD; learning how to carry out purity assessments using LCMS and MSMS analysis; programming a pipetting robot to aid in serial dilutions

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?

3/5

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?

lots of support due to being given a personal supervisor that I can ask questions to any time

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?

friendly, professional, supportive

How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?

5/5

How would you rate the social opportunities?

5/5

How would you rate the diversity initiatives?

3/5

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

3/5

Overall Experience

To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?

i really enjoyed the work i did, but could have had a larger workload as often felt like i wasn't being very productive/useful. but hard to ask for lots of tasks to do as the team is very busy and don't want to make more work for them