Analytical Scientist Review

by AstraZeneca

Rating

4.6/5
  • Skills
    4.3
  • Responsibilities
    5.0
  • Support & Guidance
    5.0
  • Culture
    4.8
  • Your Impressions
    4.3

    Overview

  • 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
  • Creating solutions and running them on an analytical machine, alongside processing the data output from them and then writing them up. This is alongside any meetings and responsibilities


    Skills

  • 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
  • I have learnt many skills - technical skills in the sense of operating instrument and machines, scientific writing skills to allow others to look at my work. People skills - interacting with people in order to cohesively work together is important and I have developed that here.


  • How would you rate the training provided during your experience?
  • 4/5

  • 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?
  • 4/5

  • Please rate how these skills have helped you in your career development
  • 4/5

    Responsibilities

  • 3. Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?
  • Yes lots - I have ran point on lots of small parts of the project, as well as running events for internal resource groups. If you want it, you can get it!


  • 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?
  • Lots of support, not just from official help (supervisor and manager) but from all members in the team and even outside the team.


  • 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?
  • A very good place to work in, a very strong no blame culture and they understand how much you know. They strive for the best in the best way possible


  • 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?
  • 4/5

    Your Impressions

  • 6. To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?
  • Incredibly!


  • 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 AstraZeneca
  • 3/5

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


  • 8. What advice would you give to others applying to AstraZeneca
  • Show yourself off without talking about the vaccine!


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Details

Placement (10 Months+)

Chemistry

North East

June 2024


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