Technology Summer Intern Review

by HSBC

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Rating

4.8/5
  • Skills
    4.8
  • Responsibilities
    5.0
  • Support & Guidance
    5.0
  • Culture
    4.5
  • Your Impressions
    5.0

    Overview

  • 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
  • Working within risk finance on google cloud platform, developing tools and utilising gcp products. Involves meeting product owners and stakeholders, learning how to use certain tech and developing with that tech.


    Skills

  • 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
  • Enhanced my presentation skills and improved my technical knowledge. Learnt how to talk to stakeholders from a business perspective.


  • How would you rate the training provided during your experience?
  • 5/5

  • How would you rate your development of industry-specific skills during the experience?
  • 4/5

  • How would you rate your development of personal / soft skills during the experience?
  • 5/5

  • Please rate how these skills have helped you in your career development
  • 5/5

    Responsibilities

  • 3. Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?
  • The tools we developed were actually things hsbc wanted to put into production and not just training exercises.


  • Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was
  • 5/5

    Support & Guidance

  • 4. How much support and guidance did you receive during your placement / internship?
  • Received lots of support from within risk with staff on call to answer any questions or deal with any issues.


  • How would you rate the support and guidance from your line manager?
  • 5/5

  • How would you rate the support and guidance from the wider team?
  • 5/5

    Culture

  • 5. What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?
  • Very communication based with lots of friendly employees who are always happy to make time for you.


  • How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?
  • 5/5

  • How would you rate the social opportunities?
  • 4/5

  • How would you rate the diversity initiatives?
  • 5/5

  • How would you rate the charity, sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives?
  • 4/5

    Your Impressions

  • 6. To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?
  • Really good internship, exceeded expectations. Lots of work to do so there’s never a dull day. Team were really nice and helpful.


  • Please rate your level of enjoyment on your placement / internship
  • 5/5

  • Please rate how your experience met your expectations
  • 5/5

  • Please rate the future employment prospects at HSBC
  • 5/5

  • 7. Would you recommend HSBC to a friend?
  • Yes


  • 8. What advice would you give to others applying to HSBC
  • Just be yourself, you don’t necessarily need to be technical cause lots of that stuff can be learned. In general just be interested in technology and display this to the interviewers.


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Details

Internship (1 Month+)

Banking

London

August 2021


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