Modern oral Intern Review
at BAT
Placement (10 Months+)
Consumer Products/FMCG, Research
Southampton
Review Submitted: August 2026
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
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Overview of Role
4.8/5
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Skills Development
4.5/5
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Support and Guidance
4.5/5
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Company Culture
4/5
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Overall Experience
4/5
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Future Career Prospects
Overview of Role
Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
Role supporting on E2E projects developing Modern Oral nicotine products. Day-to-day tasks are varied, ranging from lab testing to analysis and interpretation of data, and designing experiments to consolidate knowledge of our ingredients.
Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?
Given responsibility of a multitude of tasks, including organisation of testing and tracking samples, making graphs for slides and drawing conclusions from tests.
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?
- Time management
- Excel
- Working within a team
- Working to deadlines
- Inter-team communication
- Formulation chemistry
- Powder rheology
- Excel
- Working within a team
- Working to deadlines
- Inter-team communication
- Formulation chemistry
- Powder rheology
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?
5/5
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?
Gained much advice and insight into the company through my peers. BAT also go beyond to develop employability skils
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?
4/5
Company Culture
What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?
Company atmosphere is very relaxed in a 'work hard play hard' fashion. Everyone is very approachable and is willing to help or guide to someone who can, as well as having friendly conversations.
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?
4/5
How would you rate the charity, sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives?
4/5
Overall Experience
To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?
Overall I very much enjoyed my time at BAT, and even through the thick and the thin of the year I have felt welcomed and supported by everyone
Please rate your level of enjoyment on your placement / internship
4/5
Please rate how your experience met your expectations
4/5
Recommendations & Advice
Would you recommend BAT to a friend?
Yes
What advice would you give to others applying to BAT
Research the products, make sure you know what they are and the reason they are being developed
Future Career Prospects
Please rate the future employment prospects at BAT
4/5
Did you receive an offer to return as a graduate?
Waiting to hear
