Intern Review

I learnt a lot during this internship and acquired valuable technical knowledge as well as general competencies. I also got to know more about Barclay's inclusive culture.

I felt highly valued by my colleagues. First my buddy has been helpful and present during my whole internship. also, my line manager wanted me to really know what an analyst do as a job on a daily basis so he made me work on projects right from the start and above all he wanted me to be self-reliant. At the end of my internship, I also attended a credit committee.

The HR team has been helpful and very supportive, as well as my buddy and all the other team members.

After the first week, I began working on projects and as some analysts went on holidays, I started doing their job, which gave me a great exposure to the Leveraged Finance work right from the start. So I would report directly to VPs or MDs in projects. also, I attended clients calls and internal meetings.

The responsibility I was given increased throughout the weeks and at the end of my internship, I could work on a refinancing pitch in an independent way.

The training that I received was not very helpful because it was M&A oriented rather than Leveraged finance. However, I learnt by doing the job and all my colleagues have been open to my questions and highly helpful. So I learnt a lot.

I took part in the Citizenship Challenge and there were outdoors activities with the team.