Summer Cybersecurity Intern in Technology resilience Review
by Barclays
This review was submitted over 4 years ago, so some of the information it contains may no longer be relevant.
Rating
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The Role
4.3
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The Company
4.5
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The Culture
5.0
- 1. To what extent did you enjoy your work placement or internship?
- 2. To what extent did you feel valued by your colleagues?
- 3. To what extent were you given support and guidance by management/your supervisor(s)?
- 4. How busy were you on a daily basis?
- 5. How much responsibility were you given during your placement?
- 6. To what extent did/will the skills you developed, and training you received, assist you in your degree studies and beyond?
- 7. What was the general atmosphere in your office?
- 8. How well organised was the overall work placement or internship set up?
- 9. In terms of personal training and development, to what extent did the company or firm invest in you?
- 10. What were the perks on your work placement?
- 11. How appealing are future employment prospects within the organisation?
- 12. Was there a good social scene amongst any fellow placement students/colleagues?
- 13. What was the cost of living and socialising in the area you worked in?
- 14. What was the Nightlife like in the area you worked?
- 15. Were there many opportunities to get involved in activities outside of work?
The Role
My experience has been really engaging fro both a professional and personal side. My superiors helped me to make the most out of the experience and treated me in a fair way.
They I've been using a lot of their time in order to make my experience as formative as possible. In doing that I felt valued in what I was working on at the bank.
My line manager has been very supportive during this experience, he was always available to talk in case I didn't understand something and was always there to clarify the work he wanted me to do.
There have been different kind of days but I can say that on average I was busy but I've never felt stressed while working and that's why I enjoyed my time so much at the bank.
I felt that during the last three weeks of the six I've been given work that impacted all the resilience team. I felt that my line manager was trusting me as one of the members of the team.
The training received was of a very good quality. Some sessions were more interesting than others but I've always followed them with a lot of engagement. In the normal work that my line manager assigned to me I have learned a lot about resilience even if the tools we were using weren't too technical (I've mostly worked with excel).
The Company
When I first joined the bank I feared that people would be strict and weren't interested in my development. Right away, my manager and his colleagues made me feel like i was one of them. More particularly, I liked the informal check-ins that the Director of my team organized near lunch time to get on with people lives, to have that chit-chat that usually lighten the tension at work.
I think that, even in challenging times like this, the work has been well organised. I had to both meet the deadlines and requirements of my line manager and attend the very interesting all interns sessions.
The company offered the interns the possibility to use a learning platform to extend our technical knowledge during this internship.
Flexi Time
Company Parties/Events
Working from home
I don't really know if I would what to start working next year because I really love what I'm studying. Anyway, if a company has to be chosen Barclays would be my go-to for sure.
The Culture
Yeah, there was. The other interns had different cultures and experiences from mine and i think that we were able to enrich each other during the course of this internship.
No cost (online).
(onine)
(online)
Details
Internship (1 Month+)
East of England
August 2020
