Developer Analyst Intern Review

by Barclays

Best Student Employer

Rating

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

    Overview

  • 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
  • It is usually, working on data analytics or software development. I am also expected to interact with other employees to discuss what they do in the company to gather a greater understanding of my role and the role of the department. The work day starts at 9am and ends at 5pm.


    Skills

  • 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
  • My Python skills have developed further, as well as my usability and user design knowledge. My interpersonal/ communication skills are improved everyday as this is a very team focused department. I learned new skills in various development languages.


  • 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?
  • A lot of responsibility but nothing i couldn't handle. I was assigned User Interface development, tasked to design the whole user interface from scratch to actual development and work on back-end development a few bits here and there.


  • 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?
  • A lot of guidance as we had multiple senior employees in the team and i could ask them any questions i wanted and consult them on ideas i had. There was nothing which was considered a 'dumb' question and anything could be asked.


  • 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 laid back. Work was expected to be done but no one would constantly demand it to be done quicker/faster. People would not talk badly or aggressively, and were very open to conversation. If you had a problem, people were there to listen and try to fix the issue


  • 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?
  • i absolutely loved the internship. It very pleasant and i did recommend it to other people. I learned a lot and hope to be able to come back for a graduate program. I loved the people there and the work done was extremely interesting.


  • 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 Barclays
  • 5/5

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


  • 8. What advice would you give to others applying to Barclays
  • Don't worry about the office environment. dont worry about the more senio employees and high ups. everyone is super nice and the work is super interesting.


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Details

Internship (1 Month+)

Information Technology

Scotland

July 2022


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