Analytical Scientist Review
by AstraZeneca
Rating
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Skills
4.8
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Responsibilities
5.0
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Support & Guidance
4.0
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Culture
3.8
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Your Impressions
3.3
- 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
Working with state of the art instruments, in order to develop and validate analytical methods to ensure safety and effectiveness of the drug.
Skills
Further developed soft skills particularly communication Trained on instruments: LC,MS,NMR, GC, KF, IC
Responsibilities
Yes, you are expected to work autonomously and independlty in the lab post training giving me further confidence to problem solve independently and recognise where it is appropriate to escalate
Support & Guidance
A fair amount, there was a signifciant training period of around 4 weeks where there are specific sessions for each technique but developing competence in a technique could have been better supported
Culture
No blame culture however it is quite a stressful working enviroment due to very tight deadlines, but there is good team dynam ics
Your Impressions
It has been by far the most challeniging academic year, trying to balance a full time job whilst doing uni work, but it has led to many accomplishments, so I'd say bitter sweet.
Yes
Be prepared to work very hard if you are in your final year at uni on a year in industry. But as a company, the culture and values is great and take a very modern approach to solving problems, as well as inclusion and diversity and also teaching/mentoring
Details
Placement (10 Months+)
Science
North West
August 2022
