RBS Services Summer Intern Review

I didn't feel like my personal skills were utilised in this internship, department placements were a lottery and as one of the only tech interns with coding experience I was one of the only ones who's job involved no coding. A more tailored program would see better results imo.

I didn't sit at a desk cluster with my team, there was never a team lunch or effort to build connections with them. Because people work from home constantly and move desks daily, making connections was hard.

My line manager was always forthcoming offering help and I felt well supported.

The first few weeks I felt I had nothing to do, and the last few weeks a bit too much. It was hard to pace work because the work I was doing required a level of understanding of this workplace that could only come with time.

I was left to my own devices. Other interns were given structured work daily and clear short term objectives which I would have preferred, but I'm sure some would enjoy being given a task and just being told 'go'. Again, I think a greater effort to place interns appropriately would have gone a long way.

Not at all. I want to go into software development and I was one of the only tech interns not to get the chance to work with code.

The office is large and who comes in and sits where changes every day, some days you can't concentrate for the calls going on and others it's deadly silent.

The Early Careers team often made mistakes in instructions and documentation, things were often disorganised and details of events would change a hundred times over.

There were some sessions which would be useful if you continued at RBS but I'm not sure I would necessarily call them investments as they were just a conference call run at really no cost.

For me, completely unappealing. The system is too much of a lottery and I think works for people who don't know what they want to do. If you have a passion it is not suitable at all, I don't want to be moved around all the time I want to develop an area of expertise.

While there were some attempts to create a social atmosphere, if you were unfortunately placed not in Gogarburn with 90% of the interns then you're sort of doomed.

More expensive than my term-time cost of living. The cost of food in my location is extortionate and we aren't afforded the luxury of a Tesco etc. such as on the main campus.

There is nothing in this area but bank offices and call centres.

I think there was one event out of work hours.