Industrial Placement Student Review
by AstraZeneca
Rating
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Skills
4.0
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Responsibilities
4.0
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Support & Guidance
5.0
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Culture
3.8
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Your Impressions
3.0
- 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
- 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
- How would you rate the training provided during your experience?
- How would you rate your development of industry-specific skills during the experience?
- How would you rate your development of personal / soft skills during the experience?
- Please rate how these skills have helped you in your career development
- 3. Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?
- Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was
- 4. How much support and guidance did you receive during your placement / internship?
- How would you rate the support and guidance from your line manager?
- How would you rate the support and guidance from the wider team?
- 5. What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?
- How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?
- How would you rate the social opportunities?
- How would you rate the diversity initiatives?
- How would you rate the charity, sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives?
- 6. To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?
- Please rate your level of enjoyment on your placement / internship
- Please rate how your experience met your expectations
- Please rate the future employment prospects at AstraZeneca
- 7. Would you recommend AstraZeneca to a friend?
- 8. What advice would you give to others applying to AstraZeneca
Overview
Typically, data analysis and experiments run side-by-side. You also spent a considerable time in meetings with your supervisor and wider team.
Skills
Data handling and data analysis skills. Presentation skills because there are a lot of opportunities to present if you want to although there's no pressure. Organisational and time management skills to make sure my experiments run smoothly.
Responsibilities
Yes. As soon as I was trained in anything, I was then doing it completely independently. I would set up and run my experiments independently, although you can always ask for help or a refresh if you need. I was even shadowed sometimes, so you're definitely treated as a colleague, not just a student!
Support & Guidance
A lot! My supervisors were really kind and always on hand to help out or show me how do something (multiple times if I needed!).
Culture
Very chill and calm. People are work-focused, but the teams are also really supportive and lovely!
Your Impressions
It was really interesting and I got to develop as a scientist
Yes
Stay calm on the assessment day! It usually involves some fun team-building activity, followed by two interviews. The first interview is a soft-skills one, and the second is science content based.
Details
Placement (10 Months+)
Science
North East
July 2021
