Operations Summer Analyst Review

by Barclays

Best Student Employer

Rating

4.9/5
  • Skills
    5.0
  • Responsibilities
    4.0
  • Support & Guidance
    5.0
  • Culture
    5.0
  • Your Impressions
    4.7

    Overview

  • 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
  • My role as an intern has primarily involved intern related tasks, such as an 'Innovation Bootcamp' for example. My line manager has also tasked me with internal assignments to assist the team and generally make their roles easier.


    Skills

  • 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
  • It has been great regarding networking and meeting new people, so I've been able to brush up on that. It's also allowed me to develop my tech skills as there is training available for that and the ops team are closely related to the tech team.


  • 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?
  • 5/5

  • 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?
  • I was given lots of internal responsibility, but in most teams it is difficult to get interns up to pace within the 8 weeks to provide them with massive amounts of responsibility.


  • Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was
  • 4/5

    Support & Guidance

  • 4. How much support and guidance did you receive during your placement / internship?
  • Lots of help! Everyone around the team, even my line manager are extremely helpful and everybody is always willing to spare some of their time no matter what it is for.


  • 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?
  • Great, I can't express enough how welcoming everybody is no matter their role.


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

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

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

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

    Your Impressions

  • 6. To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?
  • It's been a great experience, I'm glad this is the one I chose and I would definitely recommend.


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

  • Please rate how your experience met your expectations
  • 4/5

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

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


  • 8. What advice would you give to others applying to Barclays
  • Make sure you do some research into the role you are applying to, and get in contact with existing employees on LinkedIn to get a feel of what is right for you.


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Details

Internship (1 Month+)

Logistics and Operations

North West

July 2022


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