Technology Transformation Summer Intern Review

to a great extent. There are much opportunities to learn, with sufficient and a variety of support including e-learning, coding graduate club, workshops and so on. There is also chances to be exposed to different roles, and work with different people inside and outside of the team. Aside from working, there are also social events and CSR and sustainability challenges to keep the experience well rounded and add to the fun.

The colleagues are very supportive and understanding. They would recommend learning materials as well as eager to offer help whenever needed. It is great to feel trusted and be treated as a part of the team, where you are given real responsibilities and work to complete. The feedbacks from my colleagues are also helped a lot in improving my work quality throughout the internship.

The guidance from my line manager is in good balance, while she will give me room to explore and self learn, she will also be there to offer a hand whenever I am stuck with something. She also gives advices on materials available to help in order to learn the required knowledge.

There is a constant workload, but not too much to handle. Although it is not very busy, the team always welcome extra help and I am able to use any capacity I have to offer them support.

The responsibility are average, where I am mostly given supportive tasks of a project instead of really leading the task. However, there are also analysis where I was given responsibility to with help of other analysts, which plays an important role in helping to achieve the goal of the team. I am also always involved in team meetings of different levels, in which my opinions and suggestions are heard.

There are a lot of technical stuff that I learnt, especially regarding Excel and PowerPoint, as well as analysing large amount of data, working in collaboration with different people, and reorganising given data. These are very useful skills which I believe will help me in my future studies and work.

The general atmosphere is a serious working office, where everyone focused on work. However, the people are friendly and happy to help each other out. So, even though it is a serious working environment, it is not suffocating and generally is a comfortable productive space.

There is a good structure of the internship, which involves CSR challenge, assessments and so on. However, there are some places that are not so well coordinated, such as induction to office work and introducing the CSR challenge. Information are tend to be incomplete in the early stages, where usually further details will be informed much closer to the event date.

There are a great extent of learning resources available, but they are for every employee to access. Therefore, the personal training and development are based on self motivation instead of company investment.

The working environment is comfortable and very flexible, offering a good work balance. There are also a selection of offers to elect from the salary, including entertainment and so on.

There are plenty of social events held to create chances for both interns and graduates to meet. The induction is also organised in such a way to encourage networking among the interns. Therefore, there is a very good social scene amongst the interns and graduates.

The cost of living is very high during the duration of the internship, as it is in Edinburgh and is during the time where the Fringe festival will be held. Therefore, the competition for accommodation with tourists are very fierce. The RBS headquarters is secluded from other places, so there is few socialising area around it.

There is no nightlife in the area (Gogarburn). However, there is trams and buses that connect to the city centre or other places.

There are many opportunities. In the internship structure, there is CSR event and sustainability challenge. In RBS, there are plenty other opportunities to get involved in activities and charity for bankwide employees.