Biostatistician Review
by GSK
Rating
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Skills
4.5
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Responsibilities
4.0
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Support & Guidance
3.5
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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 GSK
- 7. Would you recommend GSK to a friend?
- 8. What advice would you give to others applying to GSK
Overview
I work with large Clinical Trial data sets using SAS and R to help analyse this data and create reports to then feed back. I spend most of my time in R and Excel and also using PowerPoint to give my reports.
Skills
Learnt a lot of communication and working as a team, especially knowing when and who to ask for help when I'm stuck.
Responsibilities
I have been in 2 departments here at GSK, in the first I didn't have much responsibility as it was all high priority work being done so I mainly shadowed other Statisticians. However, in my second rotation I have been given a lot of responsibility and am treated as an equal team member. I have also been able to contribute a lot of work to two scientific papers that will be published.
Support & Guidance
I received a lot of support during my placement, the hard part was knowing who and when to ask as sometimes this can be quite intimidating, but whenever I asked for help I was supported well.
Culture
I think there's a really good company culture in my department. We are given realistic deadlines that sometimes we must work hard to meet but I don't feel overworked. There are also lots of different Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) which I take an active part in so this is a good way to meet people and feel comfortable at work.
Your Impressions
I have really enjoyed my placement. It was extremely sociable since there's so many IPs and the work has been varied and interesting.
Yes
You must be passionate about what you're doing. The work is far easier when you're interested in the topic.
Details
Placement (10 Months+)
Data Science
South East
June 2023
