Analytical placement student Review
by AstraZeneca
Rating
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Skills
5.0
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Responsibilities
5.0
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Support & Guidance
5.0
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Culture
4.8
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Your Impressions
4.7
- 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
It would involve planning and carrying out experiments and then writing them up to a deadline. The work involved testing early phase drugs by multiple analytical methods. Some days would be spent in the lab and others would be at your desk processing and writing up data.
Skills
Yes, I have learnt various different analytical techniques that I learnt about at University. My team was also really helpful and helped me to develop my skills in these techniques and how to process the data.
Responsibilities
Yes, all experiments carried out are the same as those that other team members do. You are contributing to the teams work in progress board and every experiment that you do will be meaningful and contribute to something.
Support & Guidance
I received a lot of support from my assigned supervisor who set up regular meetings to chat about questions and work I was doing. I also felt like I could as them or any other team member any question if I was struggling with some work.
Culture
It felt like AstraZeneca really cared about your wellbeing and enjoyment of working there. When COVID regulations eased, there were many events for the team and department as well as lots of opportunities to get involved with things. I also went on a volunteering day which they do every year which was really nice.
Your Impressions
I think I had the best possible year at AZ. I learnt so much and experienced a really pleasant working environment that I would love to return to after my degree.
Yes
I would say that for the interview process, the company values are really important and the whole competency interview is based around them and your experiences that match them. For the technical interview, I would look over year 1/2 notes and if you get some wrong, it's okay. They want to see how you work through problems and if you can get to a reasonable answer even if you are unsure.
Details
Placement (10 Months+)
Chemistry
North West
July 2022
